#and their hand is growing cold.

[quietwingsinthesky]

even deserves gentle forehead kisses

#and so do i but thats another problem #dw oc #thinking about. touch in their original environment is function only. necessity when it happens. #it is not a cruel thing. or not intentionally not by those doing it that even interacts with. because even does not. as a rule. interact #with anyone ‘Important’. #they are all simply following the same patterns they were raised with and have little reason to question because of the intense isolation of #space travel. i think a lot about. the inciting incident of even leaving is Sci-Fi Problems but more specifically. the death of someone #they were both attached to and felt responsible for. their older and previously injured coworker who would not be alive without even lying #about how much work he’s doing that they’re taking care of in reality. (which is a whole other thing. really the first things to know about #even are 1) that they will willingly put themselves in a position that endangers/harms them without hesitation if it means helping. and #2) even is a liar. that is what love does to them. for better and more often for worse. if it hurts — even will lie. #AND ANYWAY WE’RE GETTING OFFTRACK HERE #but the point is that what sticks in my mind that will go into a scene if i ever write anything about this #is that when that person dies. that person who even has built their life around protecting. buying just a little more time. #when the doctor is trying to pull even away because the danger is still present they are not safe it is still a threat. instead even squirms #away from him so that they can take their friends hand and put it on their cheek. and its still warm. #this is the person they were closest to. and this. this simple thing this simple contact. this is not something even has ever felt. #and their hand is growing cold. #anyway moving on from that this is why they should get cuddles #even headbonks the doctor to show affection like a cat pass it on.

[incorrectly-quoted-queers]

It me!

Using my miniscule platform to gush about fan creations and amazing comics I like!

This is why we start businesses, people. To be tumblr dorks *professionally*

#legend of zelda #game sandwich #growing up gerudo #junior and roy #fancomic #loz link #loz fandom #link x midna #vridi x sheik #ganondad #ganon x nobu #loz lore #queer #fandom #i love this comic and read all of it in one day someone will have to pry it from my cold dead hands before i stop being excited about it

[salty-an-disco]

I just had the worst idea ever

#imagine johnny sims grows out a new hand every time a new voice pops in #slay the princess #stp narrator #Voice of the Hero #Voice of the Smitten #Voice of the Broken #Voice of the Paranoid #Voice of the Cold #the princess #the Spectre #tw many eyes #stp voices #tw tripophobia #Sal Draws #sketches

[yamtaroh]

currently thinking about weird girl zelda. she crawls through link’s window at 3 am and is like "open your eyes. wake up link. i need lynel guts for the elixir. you must slay the lynels."

#she is just constantly going missing even when hyrule is not under threat by ganon #zelda goes missing bc she fell into a freezing river trying to catch chillfin trout with her bare hands at 4am #princess found unconscious in a forest from taste testing mushrooms. there is algae growing on her #zelda refusing to leave a cave bc she befriended the lizards. #she returns to civilisation 3 months later. cold tired and stinky. with a horde of five new species of lizards behind her #lucky clover gazette is never running out of news #spamtaroh

[no-light-left-on]

I often wonder about the quote-unquote logistics of Corvo the Black/Emily the Butcher endings. Emily makes more sense to me, in a way, carving her way through the empire only to come back with blood caked under her fingernails and realising that she did everything her father refused to do 15 years ago. but why did Corvo have a similar choice?

what happens to the statues later? does Emily keep her father trapped in stone? does Corvo look at his daughter, frozen in the moment and considers freeing her? is he at his deathbed when he finally reaches out and cups Emily's cheek, freeing her into a carcass of an empire that he gutted for her, in her name, in the name of her mother?

when I first heard of the endings I thought that if you reach very high chaos, you are locked into this choice - Corvo or Emily tries to free the other and the stone just doesn't budge. they are trapped. the quest is over but the world knows that the bloodshed was extreme and this is the punishment they have to face

#li.txt #dh #dishonored #kinda like the high chaos brigmore witches ending #there is no reason for corvo to kill daud if you finish BW in high chaos. but he still does. because the world Knows #but the very Active choice of the player and by extension the character to take the throne and keep their last family locked in stone.... #its certainly a choice. and it makes me wonder about many a thing #i really wish we got more info #karnaisbear mentioned that itd be cool if we got comics expanding on alternate endings and like arkane. arkane can we please get those #I just really wanna know What It Was Like to live under the rule of Emily or Corvo in the very high chaos endings #and the fact that it seems like they can still free the other person? that adds so much more angst and tension to it #is there a time limit? do years pass and does corvo grow old and weary and thinks that yes #he has done his job and he has done it well. and the empire is righted and he can hand it back to emily now #and he cups her cheek and it remains cold marble #and all he did was for nothing #and he cries #(can u tell ive been reading thru the corvo the black tag) #not to mention something similar to that but with emily!! #imagine she grows old! older than corvo was when he was frozen! #the century is coming to a close when she finally frees him and she is older so much older and corvo will have to live with losing her #in every single impossible way he has lost her #and then he gets to bury his daughter #these tags got so dark wtf

[flowerbloom-arts]

A mutual told me about a super short fic on AO3 a while ago, it was so good I almost cried while reading, I remembered again and knew I just had to adapt it.

#moomins #moominvalley #art #moominland midwinter #moomin fanfic #moomin fanfiction #moomin fanart #salome the little creep #moomin salome #the big hemulen #the skier hemulen #the hemulen #hemulen #mr frisk #hhhhhhhhh her little baby hand paws to show just how tiny and vulnerable she is #the blue cold hues of Frisk's warm fur against the red hot hues of Salome's freezing paws #the way Salome's pronouns grow to the size of the rest of the text as it goes on. as she feels safer and safer #I'm very proud of those details #the fic is like poetry to me. I hope OP is doing ok

[skylathescholar]

writing the therapy chapter of these are the days that must happen to you like

“I will MAKE you have healthy conversations and good emotional health, SO HELP ME”

#I’m gentle parenting Bruce Wayne #He’s growing #He’s not perfect but he tries #You can rip Good Parent Bruce Wayne from my cold dead hands #ao3 #dc comics #fanfiction #batman #batfamily #tim drake #batfam #jason todd #dick grayson

[crimeronan]

raine and eda and darius happily growing old together while working to rebuild and decolonize the world when their literal FIRST onscreen interaction involved two of them entering an insane suicide pact just to horrifically murder the other. WHO is doing it like them.

#theyre part of a much larger polycule that threatens to cover the entire middle-aged generation of the boiling isles by 2025 #you can pry this from my cold dead hands. i dont even care if darius is romantic with either of them it's just #those r his People u know. raine eda and eber. His People. #and their relationship is so funny. raeda is already good but when darius is in there too it's TRANSCENDENT #i love insane old people with problems #eber is also growing old with them but is more guy in the polycule whos not dating anyone hes just there #toh #toh spoilers #toh fambly #raedius #dariraeda

[save-the-spiral]

Malistaire 1000000% definitely had constantly cold hands and feet because 1) necromancer and 2) shitty circulation and no meat on them bones. So I say he was Notorious (to just Cyrus and Sylvia) for being the one who when in bed just pushes his cold feet against them. Cyrus learned of this as a child and suffered for years and is glad that it is mostly Sylvia's burden now. Thankfully she runs warm and will burrito bundle her husband in blankets.

#syvlia jokes about mali slapping his cold hands on cyrus' bald head. cyrus says his brittle skeleton bones would shatter aginst his skull #malsitaire hugging sylvia is all fun and games until his cold ass hands touch the back of her neck and she blows a raspberry into his neck #in revenge #malistaire probably has some kind of chronic health problem but just chalks it up to necromancy and sylvias like. okay dear. #and helps lessen symptoms subtly. #wizard101 #wizzy101 #w101 #wiz101 #malistaire drake #sylvia drake #cyrus drake #CYRUS HAS NO ROOM TO TALK BTW. he was kicking people in his sleep and rolling around. malistaire pushed him off the bed several times and #lied and said he just rolled off. #while they likely had different rooms growing up bc wealth. i am not here for that logic

[mylonelydreaming]

I want botw/totk zelink to have kids, because it would be cute and Link would be an amazing father and malewife

#zelink #totk zelink #you'll have to take post-totk cute family zelink from my cold dead hands #I built the dream home with four-seat dining table for a reason ok #Honestly contrary to what people say I think it would actually help Zelda grow and heal from her past #You can't get over something if you just run away from it #I also want them to have a family again after losing everyone #maybe I'm just projecting because I grew up in a home without love #so I know what it's like to have no family basically #people take a loving family for granted or think it's boring ig but for me it's a dream to have a positive healthy family full of joy #Friends are wonderful but they have their own lives and obligations. It's not quite the same #I also think not EVERYTHING needs to be the found family trope #that's starting to feel very over-pushed to me #I also dislike how the arguments against Zelda having a kid ever feel very radfem

[transgender-karras]

maybe I’m just sleepy but like.. fuckin hell man. Dyer really was the sun to Damien’s moon. those priests wanted to kiss and never allowed themselves to indulge in it

edit: I had a section here abt the differences in how Damien died at the end of the film vs the end of the book but then someone let me know the way I described it was inaccurate✌🏻

#like damn these two really were in love huh #and never got to really be in love ever not til the very very end #you’re holding your best friend’s hand as it grows cold from the georgetown spring coldness but also from blood loss #and in your last moments together he squeezes your hand in a show of the emotions he could never speak out loud #as a ‘thank you’ and as an ‘I’m sorry’ and as an ‘I love you’ #tw death #tw parent death #dimmieposting #🔪.txt #damien karras #the exorcist (1973) #father karras #the exorcist #the exorcist book #the exorcist (1971) #father joseph dyer #joseph dyer #father dyer #karrasdyer #dyer x karras #Karras x dyer

[zappylionlover]

Hm. I miss the old days of long headcanon posts.

Reblog this post with ur fave hcs in the tags. Both ooc and source compliant. I wanna see self indulgent and basically canon alike. I want to see yall get project-y and silly with it. I want to see ur 10 page essay on ur headcanons.

Headcanons are a belessing we all deserve to indulge in bc theyre silly and fun

#I'll go first #jing yuan has chronic fatigue and thats why hes so sleepy #luocha listens to vocaloid. idk why but i can see it #he would also stan miku #not bc hes basic but bc hes a sucker for classic vocaloid #caelus and stelle have chronic pain because of the stellaron #i read that hc somewhere on here and i love it so much #argenti is aromantic and bigender #i love aros who are in love with love and beauty of the world and tbh argenti is that guy #im also that guy LMAO #himeko is an ace lesbian #just her vibes tbh #everyone on the astral express is neurodivergent #no i will not elaborate #but iykyk #dan heng has some small scales along his upper arms thighs and spine bc of the tampering with the molting rebirth #march always has cold hands #hook will be a trailblazwr when she grows up :) #jing yuan likes having his hair played with #honkai star rail #hsr #hsr headcanons

[deva-arts]

Merry Late Christmas!

(You see Nathaniel's handwriting. "What an energetic holiday morning!")

Winter is a very sluggish time for these three. They're fighting hard against whatever funky DNA is telling them to hibernate. Even harder against the urge to eat everything in the fridge and laze around.

Here's the older one for comparison!

...Needless to say I hated it. Vincent looked so cursed for me, and Sera- I don't know what I did there.

#amontag #vincenttag #Coming out of burnout strong #art improvement #Their clothes finally look like clothes. Amon's hand isn't mirrored anymore. #Nate gave Vince a sweater to use since the only shirts he owns are tacky band tees or poor ripped excuses of tank tops #Birdpeople have higher internal body temperatures than humans. Even then Sera hates the cold. Vincent's seen worse. #I never mentioned this... But Amon and the birdyfolk all have a higher level of keratin/biotin production :D especially Amon. #this is what allows him to make scales and be cool while also having rockstar hair. He lets it go wild sometimes but often cuts it. #His hair then proceeds to grow back to this length in two months. #I'm finally drawing them more consistently #I also finally know what design to go for with Sera's face. Only took me three years. #ARK_SYSTEMA #Seraphinatag

[rhyperographer]

From volume 3 chapter 36 of Strangers in Paradise (1993-2007) by Terry Moore. His website is here and you should go buy his books.

#strangers in paradise #Terry Moore #Tambi Baker #Comics #from the storyline where she and Katchoo are rescuing David and Francine #and Tambi stops to kick the shit out of her sister Bambi #i have bought the full collection of SIP THREE FUCKING TIMES #every time #someone borrows it and I never get it back #when i buy it again #when i have the money for shipping and if Terry has any copies #you can pry it from my cold dead hands #this scene ties for best Tambi scene with the one early in the series where she picks up Katchoo from the bar and that girl in the bar #swoons #and i am like yes #me too girl #i borrowed these from the library growing up to read them all #i love SIP #my mother was convinced that Terry Moore was a woman because he writes female characters too well lol #I love Tambi Baker <3

[auroradicit]

nobody asked for this but i've thought about it too much | kalma + clothes your character would wear to a ball

florals and natural off-whites. simple lines with complex layers. pale greens that bring out her eyes. lines of intricate buttons. stiff brocade.

#kalma literally named for death having a soft spot for growing #living things after so much time aboard the death star and ships is #so important to me you can pry it from my cold dead hands #the way that this changes in her sequels verse WHOOF #something something look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it #something something heavier than it looks #c: growing fast into a bolt of lightning (kalma tarkin)

[pinkfey]

wip wednesday :D

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have a depressing oddly interpreted take on the taint affecting alistair and rowena 😘

The taint came for his hands first.

A side effect of days spent clutching a sword and shield no doubt. His veins went fast, running black and blue overnight. He didn't like looking at them, but Rowena traced them over every night. Hardened bones were next. Protruding metacarpals and thinned knuckles and a noticeable creak in the mornings. Then the pain began. The ache. Days where his joints stiffened to stone, where a grasp clenched too tight refused to come undone, where splaying fingers to their fullest extent proved too much.

Rowena often caught him staring at his hands in the corner of her eye. Busy hands, curious hands, hands made to fidget and gesture and move above all else, now immobile. His worry token went untouched for months, as did many of the things he loved to hold. Flowers in the garden. The mabari's paws. Rowena.

There was a time when Alistair couldn't keep his hands off of her. Affection of the physical kind was a bright and shiny concept and it took time for him to adjust. Rowena could touch him anywhere, after all. It came easy to her, the affection, the initiation. His cheek, his chin, his collarbone--anywhere would do. Eventually, he came to reciprocate. Tentatively at first, as if asking for permission, but confidence came with the security of her affection. Touch became a comfort. A hand around her waist, on her jaw, in her hair. Anywhere would do.

It couldn't have been more different now. He shied away when she reached for his arm to hold, twitched when she kissed his neck in the mornings. Evening baths became sparser until they no longer existed at all, and this Rowena could hardly bear--facing this truth that the old rituals had died, so she clung to the last of them.

No amount of massage relieved the pain, but Rowena would be damned if she didn't try. Nightly, he let her take his hands in her own.

It was a relief each time to see that despite the Taint, Alistair's hands were still his own, broad and square-fingered and devastatingly gentle. Calloused on the underside and scarred by his earliest days with a blade, too young and eager to know any better. And those nights by the firelight, nights where she took his palm in her hands and massaged the ache away, she could see that Alistair's hands were still freckled, just barely. The sun could still shine on him and leave honeyed kisses against his skin and this was one thing the taint could never take. No darkspawn could take the sun.

The night she realized this, she wept silently. She'd stopped him before he could speak, pressed his freckled hand to her cheek before he could pull away, and whispered, "Bathe with me."

Months later, the taint came for her.

For Rowena, it was her vision and it was swift. [reduntant fix this queen lol]

#in my universe the taint wastes away the physical thing you rely on the most #eventually everything is corrupted but it's always your most used ability first #so chronic pain takes alistair's hands and near blindness comes for rowena #spoiler alert unless in da4 they somehow resolve the cure for the calling rowena dies first <3 teehee #SO anyways alistair becomes a lil distant not because he's like. being cold with her. but because like #the insecurity of touch returned. the hesitation. asking if this is okay because of the unspoken recognition that the end is on its way #and he really doesn't know how to deal with that. never knew how to prepare for that #when he cups her face and sees the darkened veins on his wrists and all he can think of is how they can't have this for much longer #that's just!! a lot to handle!! and he needs the reassurance but doesn't know how to communicate it because he lost the ability to ask #aka touch #the bathing part is especially difficult bc ofc evidence of the taint's corruption had spread beyond his hands atp #and he'd have to bare his whole body in front of her and that's like. so vulnerable. when ur dealing w all that #this is probably rlly obvious but sjhdjhfhdjfhjd #i like having aging being a significantly important thing in alistair and rowena’s relationship #the tragedy of it all #how gaining weight and wrinkles is so bittersweet #because on one hand they’re growing old together and god can u believe they made it here #but on the other it’s the telltale sign the calling is nearing and it’s just like #okay how much time do we have left. how much time do we have left. how much time do we have left. #how can we enjoy what we have when we want so much more. gray hair and children and arthritis. we’re so weary and we’re so young. #tag game #writing* #x: a soft epilogue #ch: rowena cousland