#is this my usual quality? no but

[edgeray]

Arlecchino is a cold person.

(Arlecchino x Reader Blurb)

It's no suprise to anyone. It is simply an objective fact of the matter. She is aware of this. The House of the Hearth is aware of this. The Fatui are aware of this. It's ironic given the nature of her vision, but it nonetheless rings true despite the fire she possesses on her blackened fingertips. She is callous and curt, and underneath her skin there is nothing except frigid ice that envelopes her being like a fitted coat. She speaks with no warmth, acts with the absence of heat, exists in a constant state of cold emptiness--a state in which there is a void inside of her, as if sucking all that is human of her.

Years ago, when she was just a child of the same orphanage she headed, she had naive thoughts of finding companionship, someone who would provide the warmth she sought on lonesome nights. She was barely just an adolescent who dreamed of lying in someone's arms, feel the heartbeat of another so surely, it would remind her that she was indeed alive. For even the briefest of moments, she yearned for someone who would, if not shield, then distract her from the cruelties of this world. She had shed those foolish wishes aside. In the House of the Heart that she was raised in, such notions were admonished, in fact, the wishful thinking was one of the reasons she had nearly lost her life. Never again, she had promised to herself, when she mercilessly beat the backstabber. It was then that she believed when the time came, her tale would end the same way as it began for her: alone. As the years of being a Fatui, then becoming a Fatui Harbinger, hardened her, there was comfort in that view.

That is what she believed in. Until you came.

Iciness wraps her being. It is present in her expression, in her words, in her touch. But that is exactly why she finds solace in your being. Her vision could only grant her a synthetic flame, but, you, you're an everlasting hearth. She melts in your embrace every time she slots herself in your arms, as it feels like a kindling ignited in her heart. It is only with you, that she learns how warmth can be found in.

Arlecchino is a cold person.

It is why you, as a warm one, is perfect for her. You whisk away the most depraved thoughts, ease her of any emotional and mental turmoil, and you do not treat her with the same coldness as the world seems so fond of doing to her. You are her flame, the one that sparks her being and reminds her that she is alive because her heart beats with you, beats for you.

Except you are cold now. It is unfathomable to her how you can be this way when your entire being exists to warm her, but when she touches your skin, you are unbearably frozen. Your body does not tremble like it does when her clawed fingers ever so gently trace your skin. The corner of your lips doesn't quirk up into the usual small smile of yours when she appears in your sight, but they remain ever rigid like the rest of you. Uncharacteristically, your expression doesn't soften with her presence.

You are cold, just like her. And that makes her afraid. Her hand searches for it, prodding your skin for a familiar thumping that is nowhere to be found. You continue to stare at her, unblinking. Here would be the moment where you give her a beaming smirk and you'd cup her face tenderly as if she was glass. And she would let you, because you are her beloved, who has watched her shatter so many times before and wordlessly each shard back together, and it is for that reason that she would lean closer towards your touch.

Because you lie broken in her arms and her hands are stained again with the familiar color of red. Your eyes are glossy and gaze unblinkingly at her. Frozen. Even when you are covered in your blood, you are beautiful, she notes, but oh, so cold that it makes her doubt if you were warm to begin with.

She misses your warmth. Where has it gone? Or has it died along with you?

Her hearth is gone. And as she clings onto your form, her body wracking with a fear and desperation she's never known before, two revelations come to her: that there is no such thing as an everlasting fire, and even after so many years ago, she was right along.

Arlecchino is a cold person. And she will remain always cold.

#arlecchino x reader #arlecchino x you #i wrote this instead of writing the actual oneshot I was planning to publish on Wednesday #whoops #i was in a little angsty mood 🥰 #that's mbad #if it comforts you the next oneshot is pretty wholesome #surprisingly whipped this up in like... an hour or so #is this my usual quality? no but #this was kinda fun #i haven't written angst in a while so this was good outlet #did you guys know I'm primarily an angst writer? :) because I am #and you will see that in the future #edgeray.blog #edgeray.writes

[semisolidmind]

ok hear me out—

(sue me but he was one of the only mfs in that damn place who wasn't tryna kill the player and i think we should have been able to save him. so, fix it au where y/n helps the gang escape and they live happily in a secluded house in the woods)

#click for quality cause mobile is stupid #poppy playtime #poppy playtime chapter 3 #dogday #spoilers #LISTEN HES CUTE AND HE GOT A CRIMINALLY SMALL AMOUNT OF SCREENTIME #i think he deserves to be loved and taken care of and i will give him a y/n to achieve that #this isnt my usual fare but ch 3 messed me up man #sunnyangel

[crunchchute]

My Sam & Max cosplay I debuted at a local con during the weekend!

#wasnt wearing leg padding in these so sorry sams a bit skinny #sam and max #cosplay #crunchchute art #my art #i could remake the pants and jacket entirely but that would be quite hard actually. i suck at making jackets especially #so those are just thrifted and edited #lots of color differences that bug me but. oh well #pants and jacket arent that different but its noticeable in these pics #as well as maxs hands and feet. theyre slightly lighter as the fabric i used is better quality #but i ran out of the stuff i used on his body etc and i couldnt buy more from that store as they took their sweet time shipping the stuff #oh well. didnt make them for a competition so its okay #im my own biggest hater and my own biggest critic #at the end of the day i made a handful of people really happy and thats all that matters to me #gotta share them every chance i get as i usually just make a cos #wear it to the con and then put it on the shelf #but im too happy with these to just hide them away after #they need a good scrub and after that id like to bring them to another con. next main goal is viecc but thats just a maybe right now

[verflares]

i thought i felt your shape, but i was wrong. really all i felt was falsely strong, i held on tight and closed my eyes. it was dumb, i had no sense of your size. it was dumb to hold so tight.

#tumblr murked my quality so bad MY GODDDD please click on this i promise i have somewhat of an idea of wht im doing. kinda #anyway i once again have no idea what i was doing here but i did have fun. they make me miserable in the best way possible #im trying to be a bit more experimental both in style and colour... well. half on tht last one (guy who really likes reds and blues) #but im trying out line weight a bit more. hooty hoo. going to try drawing some more practice portraits n stuff soon #link #zelda #loz #botw #zelink #(a smidge bcus im insane. as usual) #princess zelda #zelda botw #link botw #loz fanart #tloz #i add new tags each time. i just like to get silly with it sometimes tbh :] #my art

[beybuniki]

captains

#quality even lower than usual because i cant download my files rn this is s ascreenshot but i like themm #kuroo is such a nice character #haikyuu!! #kuroo tetsurou #sawamura daichi #kurodai #kozume kenma

[lazycranberrydoodles]

hua cheng: oh god im gonna be meeting dianxia again soon i gotta act cool

hua cheng: [immediately infodumps]

#i love their ND4ND couple swag #this is what it looks like in taicang/puqi/qiandeng every night btw #hua cheng is like ‘god i gotta disguise myself so im more palatable’ but cannot resist immediately being a bitchy know-it-all #and i love him for it #aniother one drawn on my phone…. this one was on the bus! #lower quality than usual but i need this comic to be let out into the world #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #hob #heaven official’s blessing #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng #mxtx #my art #art #tgcf meme

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Alas, this beautiful dream could not last.

#dungeon meshi #falin touden #dungeon meshi spoilers #better drawn mdzs #(<- my higher effort art tag. I need to get a new one.) While it's different from my usual style I really loved how this came out! #Strolling back to the art scene to remind everyone I am still a lover of botanicals. #I had a blast with the symbolism for this one: #White lilium longiflorum (easter lily) for rebirth. Purple hyacinthus orientalis for sorrow and forgiveness. #Red spider lily (Lycoris radiata) for loss and death. #'Rebirth into something new' is so well done in Dungeon Meshi. She is back but she is not the same. #The last few episodes/chapters gives her this dreamy quality to her. As if she's not quite real. She's so perfect in their memories. #And as we know of dreams - no matter how sweet- they must end once we wake up. #It is so painful to lose someone twice. To see someone you loved in a dream and wake up and remember that loss again. #Dungeon Meshi being a grief allegory is important to me. I'll explain more as the story continues B'*)

[mobius-m-mobius]

#so unserious 😂💖

#owen wilson #tom hiddleston #loki #lokiedit #marveledit #and in doing so is actually the most serious of them all which is why he's a master at the craft 🥰 #the chimp documentary still has me on the floor though god i love owen so much #honestly need to study him under a microscope lmao there's no one in existence more fascinating and his choices elevate every scene #for my anon who wanted some panel gifs! apologies that the quality is obviously rough but this was my fav available moment 😂 #as usual their improv saves lives i'm never getting tired of them discussing how much they added to the show #marvel #owenwilsonedit #dianagifs

[blednokrov]

boa in ink

#art #one piece #boa hancock #recently i found myself losing all passion for and interest in drawing. So now I'm looking for ways regain it #sorry if my art from this point will be looking messy or worse in quality than usual

[swedenis-h]

ANH Luke (unaware of the horrors to come)!!

#blurring the photo refs as the background is a low key cute move guys #guys look how cutie! #also added closeups cus I’ve noticed the pictures are coming out way more low quality than usual #art #fanart #digital art #fan art #my art #star wars #star wars fanart #luke skywalker #anh #sw anh #a new hope #sw #sw fanart

[solcarow]

,

#happy birthday freak #u better b greatful i didnt miss it for the 3rd year in a row #kim dokja #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader’s viewpoint #my art #solar-drawss #i was gonna hand draw the bg but i . couldnt finish that in 2 days so its just a stock photo filtered to hell and back #didnt turn out all that bad atleast ! #kinda wish i made it clearer that hes running tho #and i think tumblr severely fucked up the quality as per usual #really wanted to make kdj the clearest and the train all pixelly but idk if it ended up looking right #its fine i had to rush it in 2 days #just dont look to closely at Anything #i missed drawing kdj....

[atomeja]

marazhai as a coffee shop employee big thanks to will (@willvoiceit) for the voiceover

#CONTRIBUTING QUALITY CONTENT TO MY FANDOMS #AS PER USUAL #i won't elaborate #rogue trader #marazhai #wh40k #my art #marazhai aezyrraesh #warhammer 40k rogue trader

[esora247]

had the thought of sqh with glasses and wanted to draw it LOL

#(yes i stole some of shanuraru's Mobei-Jun's features i love their design so much......) #also sorry for crappy quality i haven't managed to get a license for CSP on my ipad yet so im working in doodle mode KDNFB #svsss #moshang #fanart #mxtx #the scum villain's self saving system #rzfzx #shang qinghua #mobei jun #more notes than usual #100 #200 #300 #my art ¯\ (ツ) /¯ #400

[genenatic]

MKULIA WEEK DAY 3 : canon scenery

i saw the mkulia week post on twitter and i absolutely had to participate, combine that and julia being a baking master (and mk being baking challenged) and we got this !

+ a small bonus pining julia

#td mkulia #mkulia #td spoilers #mkuliaweek2023 #tumblr butchering my quality as per usual #total drama #total drama fanart #tdi #total drama julia #td julia #total drama mk #td mk #total drama reboot

[cornsarts]

he doesn't get it

#jojos bizarre adventure #jjba #vento aureo #golden wind #fugio #giorno giovanna #guido mista #tumblr usually likes to kill the quality on my ipad stuff as of late so id say full screen for good qual #i did not mean to take as much time as i did on this augh #but this has been in my head 4ever and needed out. messy or not

[craqueluring]

will mimics hannibal swallowing his wine in 2x12! i couldn't believe it when i noticed this; he even makes a soft "ah" noise as if he swallowed wine too! (timestamp is 17:08)

his habit of mimicking body language/speech patterns is mentioned in the Red Dragon book:

"Often in intense conversation Graham took on the other person's speech patterns...Later Crawford realized that Graham did it involuntarily, that sometimes he tried to stop and couldn't."

#i posted this in my usual gifset format earlier #and a lot of people are reblogging it saying they never noticed it! #but i only pointed it out in the tags of the og post so i thought that since a lot of people never noticed it #i would repost it in a different format and point it out in the actual text of the post! #obligatory sorry about the quality that episode is so dark and i was struggling #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #will graham #hannigram #mine #pluto gifs #hannibaledit #tvedit #murder husbands #tome wan #plutos greatest hits