#but most of all STAB

[heraldofcrow]

I notice you have a theme for liking stabby people

Ciaran in DS1

The Crow and Eileen in Bloodborne

So who's your Elden Ring stabby blorbo?

(I leave shiny pebbles as a symbol of goodwill between the squid people and the crows)

BIM WE OF THE CROWS ACCEPT THIS GRACIOUS OFFERING OF SHINIES FROM THE BENEVOLENT SQUIDLINGS!

Also, HMMM SO YOU NOTICED! Yess, I do adore my stabby blorbos (Eileen, Ciaran, and Crow could stab me and I’d thank them tbh).

For Elden Ring, it probably will come as no surprise that, besides the beloved sword-birds, my favorite stabbers are the Black Knives. I love this Nazgul girl gang so much lol.

Especially Alecto!

(Ok, that’s not a picture of Alecto but anyway 💀)

My favorite headcanon is that Alecto was Marika’s elder sister, and they were both Numen royalty long before the Greater Will chose Marika as queen of the Lands Between. The other Black Knives were Alecto’s daughters and cousins. Thus also related to Marika.

Something went wrong, they fought, became enemies, etc.. can you tell I like a side of tragic siblings with my stabbers yet? 🤣

I may be projecting a little bit of Ciaran onto Alecto, but I just like the conflicted, morally-grey assassin archetype so much. Also Alecto’s fight is beautiful idk.

CHEERS M8!!

#STAB #tiche is my fav summon like everyone else sndbssj #she’s so cool #but i was drawn more towards alecto as a character for some reason #i think she was a tired goth mom that wanted to bring marika down #out of both mercy and anger somehow #like she saw marika’s darker side and knew it had to be suppressed #but she also knew marika needed to be set free from her puppet master #so Godwyn was a necessary sacrifice #i think ranni only meant to free herself but alecto took things into her own hands at some point #and everything went to hell #idk i have all these ideas on it #but most of all STAB #HAHAHAA #alecto elden ring #black knife ringleader alecto #elden ring #asks #mutuals

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Damian isn’t happy about father’s rule not to hurt the gaggle of false kids he has acquired. How is he supposed to prove to him that he is the only one worthy of the title of heir now?

But fine. Most of them are stupid enough they’ll end up dead sooner or later. Damian just has to play the long game. Establish himself as the only constant.

But then father’s wayward son, Todd, comes home… and it’s so much worse than Damian expected.

He remembers this man. Remembers him from hushed whispers in the League, from mother’s creased eyebrow, and training halls drenched with blood.

And he’ll take one look at Damian and know. Know that he’s a threat to his position.

And the worst thing: Damian isn’t allowed to defend himself.

#Jason has no idea why the baby demon seems to be terrified of him #it’s kinda funny #all he’ll have to do is say boo and the kid very nearly faints on him #it’s less funny when they happen to be the only ones locked in a cell and Damian expects him to murder him in the most brutal fashion #like dang he thought Bruce really had a better opinion of him nowadays #also pls stop trying to stab me baby bat #misunderstandings #miscommunication #Jason doesn’t know what’s wrong with the new Robin but apparently he’s been tasked to keep him alive #and he’s making that friggin hard #jason todd #batfamily #dick grayson #bruce wayne #batfam #robin #red hood #tim drake #batman #prompts #Damian wayne #Damian al ghul #Nightwing #red robin #batdad #Jason and Damian

[noughticalcrossings]

Lieutenant John Irving

John. I’m John.

#and now for my most traumatic death scene you were soso close and Koveyook was soso kind #the terror #the terror ghosts #john irving #do you have any idea how hard it was to draw those stab wounds accurately #all 23 of them #my art #por queue my dear knight

[peaceandlove26]

total YURI island

#i had the same idea everyone else had which. yeah axel traisn nichelle and nichelle teaches axel some people skills and they kiss #trains* #also axelpony doesnt have much magic so she just stabs things with her horn mostly #mlp #my little pony #these are traced from a twilight aparkle screenshot btw #nichelle was the Most traced which is why she looks the most weird. neck-wise #total drama #total drama revival #total drama island #tdi #td axel #td nichelle #td julia #?? yeah thats all the tags i think

[taxi-boi]

one thing im thinking about is how every team stuck together til the end.

every team stuck together, and every team died together. dying all within the same rough time frame

except team ties, who all died seperately,

Skizz died amongst the bad boys, after jimmy, before joel.

Tango died amongst the clockers, after bdubs, before scar and cleo.

Etho died amongst the nosy neighbors, after bigb and grian, before pearl.

Impulse died among the mean gills, after scott, before martyn.

Team Ties. their name symbolizing their connections and metaphorical ties to each other.

All died separately.

All died alone.

#tangotek #impulsesv #ethoslab #skizzleman #team ties #limited life #trafficblr #life series #tango tek #etho slab #I GENUINELY THOUGHT THIS WAS GONNA BE ONE OF THOSE THINGS EVERYONE WAS POINTING OUT #and if you say OH GRIAN BETRAYED THE BAD BOYS or MARTYN BETRAYED SCOTT i will kill and eat you #grian stayed with joel til his final moments. still offering his life to him. and basically got joels blessing to join the nosy neighbors #and like scott said at the end of his episode #he wouldnt have it any other way #this is by far the most loyal season #martyn couldnt back stab scott if he tried #scotts been sacrificing himself all season #anyways IMPULSE NUMERO DOS!!!!1!

[elderwisp]

◁ || ▷

Atlas: Taryn? Hey!

Atlas: What happened-

Taryn: Please don’t. 

Atlas: Can you talk to me?

Taryn: [ strained ] What is there to say that you don’t already know? I keep asking myself why you’re so nice to me all of a sudden. Why would someone like you be around someone like me and it’s such a… Mind-fuck. 

Atlas: I swear to you, it isn’t like that-

Taryn: Am I just a one night stand?

Atlas: [ stammers ] N-No! 

Taryn: Convincing.

Atlas: I’m sorry it wasn’t a good enough response, I’m just caught off guard. Why would you assume that?

Taryn: Because my questions made sense the minute you walked out of that building and there was lipstick smeared all over your face. Then you gave me this look, something about it made me realize I wasn’t the first and I don’t think I’d be the last. 

Atlas: [ flatly ] We didn’t even catch each other's name, that’s how little it meant. 

Taryn: [ barely a whisper ] Oh now that’s incredibly fucked up… Was that supposed to make me feel better?

Atlas: Bee-

Taryn: [ voice breaks ] Was it worth it? [ pauses ] Don’t… Answer that. I’m… Gonna go now.

#♪ underneath the midnight sky together we’ll be set free ♪ #what a horrible way to end march #the discord is gonna beat me up #JUST A FEW NOTES IN THE TAGS IN CASE U WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE BRAINROT FESTERING MY MIND #SO did u notice how atlas maintained eye contact up until the tenth panel like he's being seen and it's uncomfortable #also the fact that all he musters up is the most ruthless comment like DAWG DAWGGGGGGGGG A STAB TO THE CHEST MATE #also to the anon that sent the ask about atlas and taryn i was just barely starting to map out this whole arc so when you sent that ask #i was like gAH GAHHHHH #nefarious machinations have commenced #fellas lemme tell u somethin it gets worse #this is just a lil dip in the pool #tessellate #sims 4 story #show us your story

[kwillow]

Theo's expressions are so varied, vibrant, and lively! Does he encounter issues with people intentionally giving him rise just to see how animated he becomes?

Yes, Theo is a man of tempestuous extremes. Much as he is loathes this trait of his, he is aware of it - enough to try to hide his temper, but not enough to successfully suppress his emotional outbursts for long. It does make him a target of whispers and gawping behind his back, if not outright ridicule. He can be amusing to toy with, and it's easy to wind him up, but it's wise not to push him too far unless you want both of you seeing some red.

He's been this way since he was young. Many kids can be cruel. It takes a rare specimen to be nigh homicidal.

#extremely gratified to have an excuse to draw scrawny emo teenaged theo #he’s the world’s angriest little bobblehead #look at his ‘’long’’ ‘’hair’’ aaaaaw #but yeah people do rile him up on purpose - it doesn't always escalate to this #most of the time a laugh is had by all (except theo) #but you know - it's all fun and games until someone gets stabbed with a fountain pen #theo #my draws #amaranthine #asks

[completeoveranalysis]

[6]

YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!

YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

Oh this next page has an open wound so I might put it behind a Read More just in case but YEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

ARE WE SAYING THAT SYAORAN STABBED HIS OWN FOOT VIOLENTLY ENOUGH TO SPRAY A FOUNTAIN OF BLOOD INTO THE AIR?

I mean that’s commitment to say the least.

#If anyone is primed to pull off #A completely blank face while stabbing their own foot #And then casually walking on it all the way up the stairs #Completely expressionless the entire time #It WOULD be Syaoran #BUT STILL? THE LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT IN THAT? #I mean he always WAS good at acting #This is entirely next dimension acting #He needs an award #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 209 #Evil Wolverine #Lava Lamp Guy #Syaoran #Fai #Kurogane #And The S t a b #The S t a b of All S t a b s #In this March with the Most S t a b s #This is the greatest way this could have happened

[arsenicflame]

absolutely delicious flavour of edizzy is where theyre Actually Married but neither of them know it, while also being acutely aware of everything-

they celebrated 25 years of their matelotage. they are having sex on the regular. both of them think the other thinks their contract is purely for financial reasons and the sex is just fun + convenience.

#'hes just having sex with /me/ because he knows im not going to stab him in the back (literally)' #meanwhile theyre having the most tender schmoopy sex known to man because theyre both so fucking in love #(not 2 say anything abt the actual sex theyre having they can be as rough as they want itll still be tender because theyre having FEELINGS) #'of course we have a matlotage it'd be silly to not have a financial agreement when our lives are so entwined. whats mine is his' #and at the same time theyre celebrating anniversaries with blowout bashes and gifts and shit and just #theyre so fucking aware of their marriage but theyre SO STUPID about it #'but what if he doesnt like me like that' about the man whos slept next to him for decades #nyxtalks #ofmd #izzy hands #israel hands #edizzy #blackhands #anyway it ends when someone else finally points it out #classic steddyhands set up. eds talking about his relationship with izzy and stedes like 'youre married' 'yeah but not like that' #'absolutely yes like that edward- am i the other woman?????' and it takes a few days and a lot of convincing but they talk about it #and realise oh theyve been real actual married all their lives huh #que more fucking schmoopy sex. hand holding and tears and shit and maybe its a little cringe but its their wedding night ok ????????

[smolbean-17]

How have we forgotten that Crosshair almost killed Hunter while freed from the chip’s influence?

“Hunter never wanted to go back for Crosshair, the audacityyy!”

Who in their right mind would want to go back for a sibling who tried to stab them to death. Honestly. In what real world scenario would that actually happen.

#the bad batch #star wars #star wars tbb #literally every reaction Hunter has had toward Crosshair is realistic and no one can handle it #they clearly trusted each other the most before and that trust was MASSIVELY BROKEN #imagine your brother tells you he willingly wants to go to bat for an evil government #and then goes for a killing blow #oh but then he does some good things in between! #great! #but all won’t be forgiven because he FREAKING TRIED TO STAB YOU #Hunter has zero context for what Crosshair has gone through #so when Crosshair calls for help there’s no way he can know for sure if it’s real or a trap #anyone would be trepidatious to put their family in danger for someone who has become so unhinged and dangerous #sw tbb #tbb #hunter the bad batch #clone wars #crosshair the bad batch

[greenerteacups]

Hi! I am an ardent fan of your writing, and I hope to be as sorted and planned as you some day in my own writing journey.

My question is: you have a keen eye when it comes to planning character personality, dynamics, and such. I've also been wading through your ask replies, and your insights into how you write people and how you make them play off of each other is so wonderful to read. If it's not too personal a q, how did you learn how to write like this? Did you go to school for writing, does it come from years of observing people, do you have reading list recs for "how to write real people and real interactions"?

Thanks! This is a really flattering question. I'll try to answer it honestly, because I wish someone had been brutally honest about this with me when I was a young writer.

I didn't go to school for writing. I started doing it when I was about nine years old. It sucked very badly. I kept writing throughout high school, and it still mostly sucked, but some of it was occasionally interesting. ("Interesting" here does not mean "good," by the way.) I took a break in college, and then came back. I've been writing ever since. Sometimes, I feel good about it. A lot of the time, I don't!

I hate giving this advice, because I remember how it feels to get it, and it's the most uninspiring, boring-ass, dog shit advice you can get, but it's also the only advice that is 100% unequivocally true: you have to write, and specifically, you have to write things that suck.

I do not mean that you should make things that suck on purpose. I mean that you have to sit down and try your absolute hardest to make something good. You have to put in the hours, the elbow grease, the blood, sweat, and tears, and then you have to read it over and accept that it just totally sucks. There is no way around this, and you should be wary of people who tell you there is. There is no trick, no rule, no book you can buy or article you can read, that will make your writing not suck. The best someone else can do is tell you what good writing looks like, and chances are, you knew that anyway — after all, you love to read. You wouldn't be trying to do this if you didn't. And anyone who says they can teach you to write so good it doesn't suck at first is either lying to you, or they have forgotten how they learned to write in the first place.

So the trick is to sit there in the miserable doldrums of Suck, write a ton, and learn to like it. Because this is the phase of your path as an artist when you find what it is you love about writing, and it cannot be the chance to make "good writing." This will be the thing that bears you through and compels you to keep going when your writing is shit, i.e., the very thing that makes you a writer in the first place. So find that, and you've got a good start.

Some people know this, but assume that perseverance as a writer is about trying to get to the point where you don't suck anymore. This is not true, and it is an actively dangerous lie to tell young writers. You are not aiming to feel like your writing doesn't suck. You are aiming to write. You are aiming to have written. Everything else is dust and rust. And of course, you'll find things you like about your pieces, you'll find things you're proud of, you'll learn to love the things you've made. But that little itch of self-criticism, in the back of your brain — the one that cringes when you read a clunky line, or thinks of a better character beat right after it's far too late to change — that's never going away. That's the Writer part of you. Read Kafka, read Dickens, read Tolstoy, you will find diary entries where they lament how absolutely fucking atrocious their writing was, and how angry they are that they can't do better. A good writer hates their sentences because they can always imagine better ones. And the ability to imagine a better sentence is what's going to make you pick up the pen again tomorrow. And the day after that. And the day after that.

Which is what I mean, and probably what all those other annoying, preachy advice-givers mean, when we say: a good writer is just someone who writes every day. It's that easy, and that hard.

#by the way a lot of this draws on ideas inspired by 'letters to a young poet' by rainer maria rilke if you're interested #that's a formative text for me as an artist #it won't teach you how to write but it will teach you how to think perhaps #and once you know how to think. well. life is just pretty good #and i can't say the writing gets easier but when life is pretty good i find myself enjoying it a lot more #this word vomit was prompted by the question 'how do you write real people and real interactions' #because that's like — i'm not trying to be pedantic but— #that's kind of just 'how do you write literature'? #because that's all literature is. what are human beings? how do you write a person? how do they interact with each other? #like shoutout to the void if you know for sure how to write real interactions then please for the love of god tell the rest of us #because i think most of all authors in history have just been giving it our best stab #'this is how the world looks for me. is it how the world looks for you?' #so my advice on that score is: try to see how the world looks for you #and then try to share it with me #don't worry about whether it looks the same for me. it won't

[taz-writes]

here's a hot take for today

the narrative function of sex is the same as the narrative function of fight scenes is the same as the narrative function of songs in a musical

no i will not explain

#taz talks #writing #actually i WILL explain but i'll do it in the tags #these each serve the same function within their respective appropriate genres #each one is a kind of revelation #they heighten the connection between 2+ characters and highlight relationships and feelings and needs #they are out of place in genres where they do not belong and/or as curveballs when the narrative did not provoke them from the start #but they have the same sort of emotional/dramatic build-up #talk -> sing -> dance (talk -> yell -> stab) ((talk -> flirt -> You Know)) #and they are all expressions of intense physicality and intimacy through physical gesture and interaction #they are fundamentally empty and boring if there is not a deeper purpose or drive behind them #although they can still occasionally be entertaining on their own if your audience is specifically seeking that experience out #people who do not like them will be very unhappy to encounter one where it isn't supposed to be #it is very easy to ruin the mood with poor word choice #many people have an inherent sense for terrible ones but it's often difficult or complicated to explain precisely why a bad one fails #when executed properly they are a very raw and intimate expression of a character's most fundamental needs and desires #the fluff is stripped away and there is nothing left but a series of needs. conflicting or cooperating. #and even when you're lying during one it's still a form of truth #none of these things are remotely necessary to tell a powerful or compelling story but if you're going to use them you need to do it right #also all 3 of these things are difficult if not impossible to write if you are not both interested in them and personally invested #this post brought to you by me trying to write smut about my dnd characters and failing because i generally hate /reading/ smut #so i have none of the vocabulary or instinct for it that i do for. say. graphic violence (or lyrical poetry)

[ntj2pj]

#madness combat #madcom oc #my oc #atp soldat #the soldat in the dark (tm) actually cares about his bro #a lot #but he just can't get sad when he warned him about this shit nonstop #no id #The bitten guy just acts too friendly because his program made him too altruistuc and kind #Which sometimes helps since he is one who recruits workers #Well #Probably it's more benefitial most of the time #But he gets in shit like “oh i just wanted to help civilian get out from dangerous location and they stabbed me :(((” #And he ain't bullied for it by anyone but his bro. He is too... Kinda. Uh. Hard to bully guy who is most safest option to talk with auditor #And not die lol. It also doesn't help that he is guy who knows all of the AAHW by names and will kick you hard for bullying anyone #So bullying him is a privilege of some atp soldats #not an option :D #Other soldat here is just walking anger issues and he got no friends other than his bro. Constantly lashes at anyone. The Bitten™ included #So they're got that dynamic of angry antisocial cynical guy and pessimist & optimistic kind dude (well #(well he got a lot of mental issues too #But doesn't show it and never let it hurt others.) #And he is much older than the pessimist :'D #Pessimist guy is very young actually. But just experienced shit nonstop from birthday and lost very much everyone he cared about #And the second one... just atp soldat with no past. never known any other thing than work in AAHW and orders. Easy to manipulate #He also gets “You're not a real person” a lot for it. And constanly offended by it. But it's a problem of all yellow bloods here #Especially him #since he litterally didn't had a life outside from aahw. Also don't think he wouldn't kick his friends hard for orders. #Kill even. He is a dog for orders first #Kind guy with good morals is only second

[svampira]

normalest friend group

#wrong they all hate each other #except for elias only eden hates him rightfully so #he got his bestie dante exhiled anyways thats for when i design kat which might be never back to the line up #brooke looks so cute shes eliciting a omg puppy response from me. never slimming her face down again her cheeeks #the more adorable they look the eviller they are. in order brooke elias diamila eden #diamila will stab you in the back for fun and she probably has the highest vampire bodycount in the us BUT she doesnt kill humans #so that basically makes her a good person #elias and brooke would literally kill a kid the only difference is elias would only do it if he was pissed brooklyn would do it for fun😭 #shes so cute #wip #ill draw a full body line up later shivers #elias and brooke are the only ones where same face syndrome kicked in but i dont mind that much there is literally no way theyd get mixed u #wait let me go back on what i didnt mention #eden is off the evil scale hes a relatively good guy.... by kindred standards tho hes still a hypocrite kind of nines style but worse #he did the most to become baron and rallies the anarchs into going to war w the camarilla basically but he cant stomach violence #back to how much they all hate each other diamila and eden used to be friends but she did her usual backstabbing when chose the vt m b #camarilla ending diamila hates brooke and brooke just dislikes her but has no reason to hate her and eden and brooke hate love each other #mostly hate by 2021 honestly #his bestie wasnt named dante i meant it dante exhiled. you know

[dear-ao3]

How’s the formula one-ing been?

wonderful they are so silly

obsessed with the way the announcers over pronounce everyones names on the international broadcast honestly like

lllaaANNDOO NORRis

carLos SAIIInz

pierre GAASSley

so silly i love them

#not a tag #from saph #someone on here was like yeah its only 20 guys but its the silliest most dramatic 20 guys ever and i agree wholly #still developing favorites but haas are my favorite meow meows in a funny way #magnussen looks like he wants to stab someone all the time #and nico looks like his hair is one of the emperor penguin guys in penguins from madagascar #f1

[markantonys]

#today's the day!!!!!!!!!!! i can't wait for the drama the mess the angst and most of all the mat cradling rand in his lap #genuinely nobody is more excited to see mat stab rand than cauthor shippers djfkgh #wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time #wot show spoilers #mat cauthon #rand al'thor #cauthor