#and he's left to the wolves

[aleksanderscult]

It's no wonder he killed himself after that.

#the darkling #rule of wolves #LMAO #i would too #the Darkling: “Fuck this shit I'm out🎶” #he literally left them for five minutes alone and everything went to Hell #antis: “THANK GOD THE DARKLING'S DEAD” #the world after the Darkling died: #grishaverse #shadow and bone #king of scars #nikolai duology #pro darkling #aleksander morozova #pro aleksander morozova #meme #grishaverse meme #shadow and bone meme #rule of wolves meme

[onewolfaday]

015. ame from wolf children (2012), but with my own design that gives him a more wolfish coat

#really really love wolf children i need to rewatch it #i love this design haha. i love wolves #<3 #emo ass wolf #and i love ame so much. hes just like me fr #& small tidbit about the design. i was going to make his face a lot more Wolf but i realized they left it so light bc it still needs to be #readable and share characteristics w his human form <3 so i left it mostly unmasked #wolf children #ame #wolf #wolves

[birdricks]

my beautiful wonderful morty oc who dies horribly for the plot <3

- angel gets her nickname from her dimension code … and bc shes oh so lovely ^_^ oh and bc she dies.

- hes super good at knowing what appeals to ricks and so tries to help the other citadel mortys (and notably emorty) to… act right. and hopefully keep their ricks. and not get hurt

- she gets lucky with her first rick being nicer than most… but his next rick is ur standard abusive rick. he ends up getting angel killed through carelessness or smth similar

- emortys closeness w angel is part of what endears him somewhat to morty prime later on. if anyone cares.

#more notes under the cutttt :] #rick and morty #morty smith #… can i use that tag for this or will i get attacked by wolves #morty oc #morty a-831 #artsbotz #YAYYYY MY BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL SON …… #ok ummm some more stuff i didnt wanna type up properly #designnn wise. ok this is a silly specific thing i decided on where mortys have their hair parted on the right. but emorty is on the left #like hes mirrorrrrred. and also silly right = good / left = evil symbolism #i loveee eye colour symbolism too w mortys (and ricks) … #i think most mortys are like an even mix of blue and brown eyes #but angel has blue specificallyyy to match morty prime. yahhhooooo #oh and emorty has brown to contrast them both … and to parallel c137… etc #the long hair is just for fun and gender reasons BUT the hair over the eye is supposed to symbolise like. emortys eyepatch #(and also the fact that she dies from getting shot in the head.) #the hairclip does smth similar. #oh speaking of. im not totally decided on how emorty gets the hairclip back #but current idea is he manages to bust into where they keep all the dead mortys #he seems to have a pretty extensive knowledge of the inner workings of the citadel even early on sooo. its just a matter of When and How #he learns different things #btw he keeps the hairclip forverr. takes it w him out of the curve and all #anyways ig the main concept behind angels relationship w emoty is like. she does everything perfectly. acts exactly how she needs to #and its still not enough. shes still victim to the vicious system of the citadel and is thrown away like garbage either way #i imagine emorty to be kinda disillusioned stright out the test tube lol .. but this is part of what solidifies his hatred for the system #AND. for Sellout Mortys. #ok i can barely think n read rn . POST

[sunderwight]

has anyone written a Loki series fic where Don the Jet Ski Salesman comes home one day to find his boys hiding something in the garage, and is tiredly like "is it snake? I better not go in there and find out you guys robbed a zoo--" only to open the garage door and see an injured, bewildered frost giant Loki prodding cautiously at a bag of doritos (the boys attempted to provide sustenance) (could be angst or good just be the version from the What If? episode trying to recover from a bender with Thor)

#loki series #loki series spoilers #lokius #i can't be the only one who sees potential in the most supernatural version of loki and the most mundane version of mobius #although now I'm thinking about the opposite #some timeline where odin decided to drop loki off on earth rather than raise him on asgard #finding some suitable human couple like the kents but the loki version so professional con artists instead of farmers i guess? #loki raised by confidence tricksters the way some heroes get raised by wolves #until he gets into trouble and has all his powers stripped away and has to deal with jail and parole #meanwhile somewhere out there is some version of mobius who got the bad end from meddling with time streams #lost in the fragments of various timelines constantly unraveling and reforming and time/space slipping #until god of stories loki finds him and gently nudges him into the nearest stable timeline #but the experience has still left mobius deeply weird and kind of half outside of time #temporal manipulating powers-having sort of crazy accidental supervillain mobius #and loki who works at baskin robbins with ant man because they met in prison

[dyslexic-mess]

There are things about Jason Grace. Things you’ll see if you look.

When he eats, he haunches over the food. Rings an arm around it protectively, even when in trusted company. He can be smiling and joking but you get the feeling if you move for his food, you may not come away with all your fingers.

When he walks, his gate is sleek, for lack of a better term. He doesn't really walk at all. He trots or pads on his feet, sometimes stalks. How he manages to ‘pad’ on human legs, no one’s really sure, but it's the best way to describe it.

When he sleeps, he quite literally curls up. Knees as close to his chest as he can get them, arms pulled together and a hand lazily laying over his nose. One time, Leo actually caught him walking circles in front of his bed before he lay down but thought better than to mention it. Also, on the note of his sleeping, he will cuddle up to anyone unfortunate enough to share a bed with him. Not in a huggy sort of way, more pressing himself against the other person. Leaning into them. If you're not careful, he’ll sleep on top of you.

He’s territorial too. Over his friends, over his things, especially over his home. Patrols aren't something Camp Half-Blood needs, anymore, not since the magical barrier, but he’s been seen wandering just behind it. Glaring into the woods that aren't protected by Thalia's tree and, when he’s particularly restless, carving notches into trees. The simple act of someone bored and taking a walk, one could suppose but always in the same places. 

The best time, though, to really see the things about Jason, is when he fights. He quite literally bares his teeth. Curls his lip back and scrunches his nose. You might even hear him growl. He paces like he’s hunting his opponent, eyes wide, intense, and barely blinking and when he fights, it's low to the ground. As if he might actually fall to all fours.

There are things about Jason Grace. Things that remind everyone of just how young his journey started.

#Feral jason my beloved <3 #kid was litterally raised by wolves #and we know Lupa wont send them to camp until there strong enough to make the trip #and he was left to her at like 3 #he's gotta have been atleast 10/11 before he went #ATLEAST #you gonna tell me a minimum of 7 years being raised by wolves didnt rub off?? #bek writes #percy jackson #Jason Grace

[muninnhuginn]

feeling so normal about li bing and qiu qingzhi btw

#their dynamic is fascinating no matter which medium you choose #but the cdrama's choice to deep dive on the 'old friend' deal and all that entails just hit my specific niche so hard #idk what it's like to experience the cdrama when you haven't got the donghua in the back of your head but as someone who did? #the irony was so much. despite the changes enough was kept intact that going in I knew two things for sure: #1) despite seeming antagonism they do both care for each other. 2) qqz was never getting out alive. #was sad to see the li bing|li bao stuff get dropped but the new backstory worked + explained the differing characterisation for lb rly well #white cat legend #white cat legend spoilers #<- for my own tags oops #no but like. the way that lb admitted he always thought he'd die young but maybe he could live on through qqz #and then in the end it's lb left alone with no choice to die even if he wanted to. whilst qqz would rather die than become a 'monster'. #and he meant it in a different way (addiction metaphor) but lb had his own worries that his demon state meant he was now a monster. #sth sth choices about living and dying and being a 'monster' and how lb had support but qqz was surrounded on all sides by wolves #he chose to be there because he had to be to survive. as a former slave he knew he had limited choices. but it's still so....

[thomas-the-goat-of-satan]

I mean, yeah, Ashley does leave Chris to die if you try to shoot her, but like. it's a little funny. it is!! a girl wearing leggings and jorts just let you die!! how humiliating!!

#and the way she keeps eye contact and slowly backs up??? COMEDY. she left him to the WOLVES. I've gotta laugh #yeah it's a little fucked up but he tried to SHOOT her. imagine your crush tries to shoot you in the face. with little to no hesitation too #until dawn #ashley brown #chris hartley #horror #video game #cloey talks games #mine

[dirtytransmasc]

self indulgent got concept.

Ned brings Jon home, Cat hates the boy, everything stays the same... until Robert Baratheon is charging through the halls of Winterfell looking for the babe, ready to butcher the poor thing where he lay helpless in his cradle.

in a matter of moments Catelyn learns three things:

The babe was never a bastard, Ned had only lied to her to protect Jon, and that she would die before she let Robert lay a finger on the babe she'd previously wished death upon.

cue Catelyn Stark snatching Jon from his cradle, holding him, protecting him, loving him as she would her own son, risking it all to keep him safe, all care for herself thrown to the wind.

like they say, what a mother's love holds no bounds, and what it makes her capable of had no limits.

#listen listen listen #I just want Catelyn to love Jon Snow and I don't care what I ahve to do to make it happen #(plus the angst is delicious) #I was rewatching old kids movies and ended up watching ice age and idk why but the mom sacrificing herself for her babe gave me ideas #I just imagine young Cat holding onto the boy she hated and wished death on for being bastard (only to find out he wasn't one) as tightly- #as she could. knowing Robert and his men were coming. knowing they would slaughter the boy in front of her. knwoing she'd wished for this- #and deciding she'd give her own life to protect him if thats what it came to. #and in my mind she jumped from the window of the nursery knowing the halls will be filled with the kings men and leave little chance for- #escape. before fleeing on injured legs to hide the babe and herself knowing Robert would be right behind her. she's in agony. but she'll- #going for the babes sake. she won't stop until her heart is dead in her chest. even if it hurts to move and breath and think he keeps going #maybe she takes a horse and flees wintefell all together. maybe she hides somewhere in/around the castle. maybe Robert catches her? #if she runs with him she'd have nothing but the clothes on her back. she'd have to feed him and keep him warm. she'd have left her own son- #behind. the potential angst and hurt/comfort as Cat misses her own son and learns to love another. feeding him and keeping him warm from- #her own body while she's injured and lost and at the will of the elements of the strange new place she now considered calling home #idk I just think it'd be an interesting concept #there's something about a mother and her child being cornered by 'wolves' (in this case a stag). this has the added spice of Cat and Jon's- #dynamic. just earlier that day she could barely look at him and now she's willing to die for him. the change happened in seconds. #that was a lot of ranting in the tags. oops. anyway... #catelyn stark #jon snow #I love putting these two in harrowing. life altering. and/or traumatic situations so they can finally just be mother and son #I live for the angsty family feels #got #game of thrones #asoiaf

[aleksanderscult]

In your post about the Darkling where you listed your opinions of him (first impression, impression now, favorite vs least favorite thing, etc) you said how if you had to choose a least favorite quality it would be his grumpiness (especially in RoW). Since I refuse to touch that cursed duology if it’s okay, may you explain what you mean? I know we get some of the Darkling’s POV but that’s pretty much all I know. Could this entire trait of his be a product of Bardugo’s retconning habit or is it something more?

Aha. I see you're practicing self-care too, dear anon. 😌

Here are some examples:

From his POVs we can see that Aleksander is very pragmatic but also bad-tempered and bitter but that's completely understandable.

He has just been resurrected and:

1) Encountered a Saint that he detests.

2) Found his country to be in the worst state possible. Flanked by enemies and ready to attack.

3) Oh and let's not forget that devastating blight! ☝️

4) His captors have treated him like shit and put him under inhuman conditions.

5) Saw the woman he loved live a life that she doesn't deserve, being a shell of her former self and married to a man that he hates and considers worthless.

6) He's all alone. No Baghra, no Alina, no allies, no soldiers. He has to start from all over and has found himself surrounded by idiots (but even so he feels the need to protect them).

The fact that I find his grumpiness kinda annoying is because I as a person have been surrounded by grumpy people all my life so I can't help but find it unattractive and bothersome.

But then again, Aleksander has a really valid reason for being this way. It's very possible that he took this sarcastic attitude from his mother. After all, they had spent so many years together that Aleksander really adopted most of her traits, unwillingly or not. But I also believe he's that way because he has lived for too long.

He's immortal. He has done everything and seen everything, has seen people being kind and cruel, predictable or unpredictable. His experiences have only made him more bitter but that's also because he hasn't seen any positive changes or results from his constant battle against the persecution or how Ravka and the Grisha have no regard for him or don't notice his efforts at all.

Anyway, he's bitter about many things. In RoW he's that way for the reasons I explained in the beginning but, as a whole, he's resentful for a bunch of reasons that include his immortality and its consequences, the loss of people he loved, his strive to be seen and appreciated and the horrors he has witnessed.

#the darkling #rule of wolves #his attitude in RoW is a whole mood #he came back from the dead only to see everything he worked for going down the drain #and the fact that he also woke up completely powerless shook him and left him uncomfortable #and then! the good gang decided to only worsen his condition by leaving him naked in a too brightly lit room #I'm sure somewhere out there there are principles for the treatment of prisoners but what do I know right? #pro darkling #aleksander morozova #pro aleksander morozova #anti zoya nazyalensky #grishaverse #shadow and bone #anti nikolai duology #alina starkov #anti mal oretsev

[swiftfootedachilles]

remember when i got told that im a delusional woman roleplaying as a man on the internet with a gay porn addiction. all because i said safe bdsm practices and prep before anal should be more common in fanfiction.

#literally some of yall need to die idgaf #anyway. mickey milkovich is a trans man and ian gallagher is nonbinary and uses he/she pronouns. and theyre t4t #literally you got so mad and for what?? because i called out a random user who left snarky tags on my post??? why are you so mad #anyway theres 2 wolves inside me one that wants to kms from dysphoria and one who is inspired to be even more transgender due to these anons

[nerosdayinanime]

as much as i love his design i fucking CANT draw his expressions as exaggerated as i want to an its v frustrating

#kny sabito #sabito #fratboy sabito posting #neros art tag #halloween au #left side of his smile is limited bc his cheek scar and the right side is so wide he shows off his gums. like yk how when dogs/wolves snarl #they show off their gums that bit? he can only do that on the one side and he does it a lot #excited angry happy(he doesnt know how to smile 'normally') etc otherwise he creepy empty stare or scowl #Labyrinth (OOMPH!) came on and i started thinking of giyuu finding him in the labyrinth again #he literally had to fight for his fucking life. sabito wasnt being defensive he was going for the KILL. dead silent snapping jaws trying #to tear his armor off. giyuu tried to do the neck chop to knock him out but it only made him drop before getting back up a little #disoriented before he shook it off completely and kept trying to kill him. reinforcements came and darted him so they could actually #get him out and give him a medic check #the kitsune arm is way stronger than the rest of him #with that in mind actually he probably woulve broke giyuus arm or something. m gonna add that #also i genuinely didnt try with his smile in that second one i just wanted to get the general shape/idea/whatever bc i couldnt get it #how i wanted :(

[cicadaknight]

i so desperately wanted to beat cazador up with my bard’s lute but karlach slam dunked him into the void mid-evil monologue 👉👈

#bg3 spoilers #as combat goes it wasn’t the worst fight #but it was 2am i left gale and his fireballs at camp and shadowheart kept pooping her armor about the wolves #desperate times call for cheesin measures #sorry cazador if you’re gonna hide at the edge to avoid my daylight spells #i simply can’t miss such a comedic opportunity #i will say i did that on the second attempt and reloded because i thought losing his corpse might fuck up the end choice #but it did not #and then i tried to fight for real for another hour or two and couldn’t get further than killing a couple bats #bg3 #cazador fight #astarion #astarion spoilers #died enough times to run through most of astarion’s confrontation dialogue though #holy shit #if you say anything cazador makes fun of him for needing someone to speak for him #and from then til the start of the fight he’s so hurt and scared #like cazador is calling him a weak stupid little boy and completely rips through any confidence he had #tr-tr-tr-trauma response #an awful glimpse at how powerless astarion truly felt #we all joke about astarion being a sad little wet cat but the UNSPEAKABLE trauma he endured and inflicted unwillingly for CENTURIES #but if you say nothing he delivers one of the best ‘fuck you’ lines ever #and jesus christ the ending #obviously i chose the good one #but it hurt so bad anyway

[sapchats]

at 4pm today i instinctively opened twitch to sit in sapnaps offline chat and wait for him to go live and then i Remembered

#hes left me to fend amongst the wolves (real life and school) to fend for myself #he is my bird mother and he hath abandoned me . i hope hes having so so much fun😞

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE GIRL IN RED by Christina Henry.

We took a trip to Red River Gorge this weekend, and I both started and finished this book while we were there! It was a very speedy read.

While I did really enjoy the genre-savvy protag, I was expecting more Wolf Presence in a Little Red Riding Hood retelling, either literally or metaphorically (I mean, come on, look at that cover??). There were a couple references to (metaphorical) wolves and one coyote-man comparison early on (also metaphorical), but it felt like the Wolf Motif mostly was dropped, which was an Interesting Choice™, given that the plot entire was Red walking through an apocalypse and the forest to her grandmother's house. (Yes, she really goes by Red, which is not her name--she just really likes her red outerwear.)

This was also much more ongoing-apocalypse than post-apocalypse, and said apocalypse is referred to in-book as "the Cough" (publication date: June 2019?? wild). Family Units are endangered and fall sick on page, be warned! In addition to the Cough, there's also quite a bit of gore (via both brutal axe murders (self defense) and chest bursting a la Alien (which is the in-book comparison lol--see "genre-savvy protag")(admittedly this chest bursting subplot did feel very What The Hell Is This Fresh Bullshit, and not exactly cohesive with the rest of the story...not sure why that's in there lmao)).

Again: Quick read! Not super complicated or twisty, but it was a nice simple read after making it through THE BITCH QUEEN CHRONICLES, and I'm glad I read it for my own LRRH retelling reasons.

#books of 2024 #book photography #my photography #the girl in red #christina henry #lrrh #forreal though i am SO GLAD i didn't try to start this one while my whole family actively had COVID lmaoooo #(we just got over it finally) #and it was perhaps not the BEST choice to take to an isolated cabin in the woods but i WAS right that the forest walks vibes were on point #SERIOUSLY WHERE WERE THE WOLVES #AT LEAST A WOLF!! #i really thought one character we met toward the end might be Wolfish but. he was just a genuinely nice guy #that was lowkey a disappointment ngl #also the Cough/crawler thing felt. out of place and unresolved. #like she (the author) could've picked ONE of those threads they weren't both necessary?? #and then the chest bursting/crawler thing wasn't. resolved. at all?? #like the protag even said in narration she was just gonna let it go not her business??? also disappointing. #(it also happened with like five pages left in the whole book so. not sure what else to expect) #the whole book was literally trying to get to grandma's but it wasn't a beat for beat fairy tale retelling #(mine is beat for beat. or it will be. when i get to revising.) #(but we both have fucked up post apocalyptic viral/bacterial end of world scenarios leading to our Reds so i thought maybe a good comp.) #(not actually a good comp besides vibes though.) #OH AND SASHA (mine) AND RED (henry's) ARE BOTH NARRATIVELY AWARE #like red knows genre stuff (horror movies and scifi and survivalist things) #but i want sasha to be aware that she's In The Fairy Tale but weirdly and meta about it. so there's SOME similarity but not quite the same. #i did not like how her whole family dies horrible deaths #(spoilers i suppose) #(but you know by the first chapter that she's alone so. is it a spoiler.) #anyway i have a surprising amount of thoughts about this actually so i guess it did something to my brain?? which is nice?? i guess? #easy prose and very predictable otherwise lol

[pumpkster]

ok i was rambling about this on my priv but ill probably look into doing commissions for the first time soon

#i need to do research #if i do i'll have just 1 or 2 slots open #there are two wolves #one has 5 fandom wips on hand and the other wants to do comms #edit: i told my mom i may do commissions and she said that yesterday she had a dream were we worked in an ice cream store #and that an english speaker constumer appeared #she couldnt understand him so i went to talk to him #and after that we both left without saying anything to my mom????? #she said he was tall and beautiful #what is this #WHERE* (in the 5 tag)

[dirt-str1der]

Yaoi has poisoned all of your fucking brains !!

#Yakuza HATEblog #i dont want to hear about the new yakuza trailer where kiryu proposed to soemone he wouldnnever do that thats so scary #also they refered to sayama as the cop lady like please show some respect to her she didnt be annoying for you to forget her #ive become homophobic now because i hated seeing a particular post so much like that will never happen you are crazy #like no this isnt how kzmj can win they have never even once considered a future together because kiryus foreplanning ended when he lost #his brother and majima has spent half her life waiting for saejima to come back like they have more important things to worry about #and kiryu is not able to share his kids with anybody he cant simultaneously raise haruka with someone he has to either be a single dad or an #absent dad no in between and sometimes haruka is left parentless in the middle of that mess but its not kiryus problem hes driving cars amd #beating people up .... well he does care sorry for insinuating he doesnt ... he thinks about his kids every day #but i guarantee you he does not think about majima every day i swear it to you he does not care about her that much !!! i have to forever #stress this doesnt mean that he hates majima but it simply means that shes not his priority AND SHE WILL NEVER BE !!! kiryu will never #risk it all just for a suckle on that majiwilly like he doesnt like her that much ... if kiryu didnt even give majima so much as a phonecall #when he was ignoring her the entirety of y3 AFTER tossing her back to the wolves just so he can play house at okinawa.. hes not going to #suddenly realise that he wants to spend the rest of his life with majima hes going to be pondering how miserable he is while beating the #fuck out of people because sorry i didnt actually pay attention to the gaiden stuff is kiryu a hitman now or some sort of mercenary either #way its so hot that hes paralleled by y0 majima because hes so depressed and wants to kill himself and forced to wear a nice suit and do #things he doesnt want to while being kept on a tight leash like hohooho ... have sex with me ...!!! #im going to kill him myself to put him out of his misery if i have to ... just let kiryu run off to america and join the cia im kidding but #wait i just thought of him actually running off and sayama pulling some strings in the force to keep people from looking for him because #shes like a bigshot cop now ... i think she should be able to cradle him gently and keep him like a show cat #a shivering wet penis in the rain and she takes him in and gives him a loving home ... i feel a little embarrassed talking about hetships #but the concept of kiryu just being in her house and living with her is making me laugh like wow ... hes straight now.... like obviously hes #still not going to be like lets get married 🥰 but sayama would want to... i believe that she could forge their documents so kiryu isnt an #illegal immigrant anymore and she gives him an american name so john yakuza can become real ... its like a fake dating au but they really #arent dating theyre just having sex and acting out scenes from a kdrama but eventually kiryu will have to go back because hes so sad #without his kids and he needs to see them one last time to pass away peacefully. sorry i just remembered how much older kiryu was than #sayama like thats a bit funny ... like i still think kiryu should be into older guys or girls but like we cant always have that happen #like how majimas options for getting fucked by creepy old guys are getting lesser year by year because those old geezers keep dying and hes #old now too ... like theyre so old thats fucked. i know ive been saying how kzmj can never win but i do think majima should breastfeed kiryu