#life and death alongside

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 52

So I’ve seen several catboy Danny prompts, but hear me out: All of Amity becoming so ecto-contaminated that everyone becomes something akin to a mythological creature. And Danny? He becomes a Nekomata- a two-tailed cat that was said to be able to shapeshift into humans for mischief, including straight up haunting people and stealing corpses. Vlad ends up a kitsune- which is already associated with taking on human forms to seduce people and with things such as foxfire and possession. Tucker ends up a sphinx sort of creature- “It’s not fair you guys can just float around while I have to figure out how to use these stupid wings when I could be coding!”- and Sam ends up a dryad of some sort, they aren’t entirely sure what but that’s what they joke it is so…

The people sent to investigate this city are more than slightly freaking out.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #Everyone is freaking out #Except for Captain Marvel #he’s honestly living his best life. Maybe Billy should ask Tawny if he wants to visit… #I mean from an Outsider's pov they just stumbled across a city full of mythological beings #Including a nine-tailed kitsune which like those are at least a thousand #And the man doesn't look old at all! Late thirties to early fourties so who knows how old the elderly people in this place are! #Why is there so many auras of FUCKING GODS in this one city #And death magic #Um is that a giant time-naga?? Oh that's a primordial being of time visiting his nekomata grandson? Cool cool #A-and the giant? Also visiting alongside the yeti who is bringing stuff to the hospital #O-okay then- #Mythical City AU #Prompts #This could be a crossover with a lot of other things too if wanted

[merrysithmas]

paul "if john was gay i wouldve known he wouldve hit on me!" mccartney

🤝

john "im not GAY but i constantly hit on paul. it doesnt appear to be coming across. that must mean he's straight too" lennon

/youre bad at it and he's bad at it and that's gay love in the oppressive 1960s straight hegemony baby!

#youre bad at it and he's bad at it and thats repressed gay love in the 1960s repressive straight hegemony baby #paul saying he WOULDVE KNOWN if a gay person hitting on him is either the funniest thing a str8 person has ever said or the biggest #overt admission of being queer #lmao #and we know its not the first 1 #mclennon #john lennon #paul mccartney #they werent normal about each other and its SO FUNNY NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT IT other than the stannies #i feel for JL honestly although i think hes a very destructive and kind of bad person (but who isnt lol) #he seemed so tortured and part of it was never being able to embrace his sexuality in the 50s and 60s and it steered his whole life awry #alongside all thenother tragedies #but w that too he mustve felt sooooo broken #and it couldnt be more obvious he loved paul #even yoko finally confirmed he was bi (as far as she knows - dont know how hed identify today) he is queer #which was one good thing that happened for him post death #not having to hide #anywayyyy

[queenlucythevaliant]

'Yes, that old oak with which I saw eye to eye was here in this forest,' thought Prince Andrei. 'But whereabouts?' he wondered again, looking at the left side of the road and, without realizing, without recognizing it, admiring the very oak he sought. The old oak, quite transfigured, spread out a canopy of dark, sappy green, and seemed to swoon and sway in the rays of the evening sun. There was nothing to be seen now of knotted fingers and scars, of old doubts and sorrows. Through the rough, century-old bark, even where there were no twigs, leaves had sprouted, so juicy, so young that it was hard to believe that aged veteran had borne them.

'Yes, it is the same oak,' thought Prince Andrei, and all at once he was seized by an irrational, spring-like feeling of joy and renewal. All the best moments of his life of a sudden rose to his memory. Austerlitz, with that lofty sky, the reproachful look on his dead wife's face, Pierre at the ferry, that girl thrilled by the beauty of the night, and that night itself and the moon and ... everything suddenly crowded back into his mind.

'No, life is not over at thirty-one,' Prince Andrei decided all at once, finally and irrevocably. 'It is not enough for me to know what I have in me- everyone else must know it too: Pierre, and that young girl who wanted to fly away into the sky; all of them must learn to know me, in order that my life may not be lived for myself alone.

From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

#there are so many gorgeous passages in W&P that i could pick #why not this one in which Andrei reflects on several of them? #I've already talked about the Natasha and the moon passage on this blog. truly one of the most beautiful scenes I've ever read in any book #but part of what's so interesting about that scene is that we actually get it from Andrei's perspective. he's listening below the window #and overhearing Natasha that night is really what makes him love her #it's what made /me/ love her #and he carries that experience with him alongside his own experience looking up at the sky on the battlefield at Austerlitz #Napoleon himself sees Andrei and commends his courage but Andrei barely notices because the sky is so so beautiful #the lofty heavens which he never really considered before #but Natasha did #and so it's those moments his friendship with Pierre this old oak that renew his lust for life #life is not over at thirty. once i heard a girl exclaim at the loveliness of the moon and wish to fly away. #once i lay on a battlefield and all i could see was the beauty of the sky #and my friend Pierre believes in the future and he's searching it out #and look. this tree is still here #first time i read W&P i was honestly so relieved that so many people got happy endings the tragedy of Andrei's death didn't fully register #i mean the chapters concerning his death are beautiful and sad. the kinship between Natasha and Maria at his bedside #the peace he finds as he dies #but it really is a story in which he had decided to live fully only to die young. and that's become increasingly tragic to me as I've grown #happy birthday tolstoy #russia where are you flying to? #pontifications and creations

[sprucewoodmpreg]

The bad boys this session... you were so real for the cannibalism posting

i'm so glad the agenda made sense 🙏 u can't give me a series like this and tell me that there's NO mention of holy/unholy consumption in a weird self-sacrificial way......

#i've always liked the life series for those weird Themes u could mix alongside the actual ''story'' #when the flesh (or what it can provide) becomes this commodity of sorts. death is a currency which therein implies the ability to ''share''

[gayfishermanfive]

five hargreeves would be THE mother of all time if he had children i am just saying

#number five #five hargreeves #tua five #look at him with his SIBLINGS #like #just imagine him with kids #he would #mother them #to death #is this just a shitposty way of me saying i think he would be good with/love kids #yes #i just think that five would be an excellent parent #an overprotective anxious one prolly #but just like #amazing #he'd love his kids #his entire life would revolve around his kids #he fr fr would be the mom of all time #one of my fave five grew up alongside his siblings/no apocalypse/normal upbringing aus #hes just a stay at home dad who dotes on his kids 24/7 #because he WOULD #he is so family orientated i cannot #jump speaks

[st4rry-fruitz]

i just will never be able to watch bbh and dapper visit the dead eggs graves without feeling complete and utter despair like Ever .

#qsmp #and especially alongside him and dapper being grim reapers #and celebrating/appreciating death #and taking it as the next step in life rather than an ending

[bingobongobonko]

TAKEN SALVATION

#experiencing thoughts abt yves and telly's fight alright... #sighes.. #bingo art #yves #lancer rpg #you may be asking. why are they fighting.... simple #they are both stupid as hell #(endearingly) #violence cw #blood #but yeah no in actuality. yves feels like telly took his martyrdom and a chance of salvation by saving his life #(even though yves was very afraid of the prospect of death and realized it wasnt HIS own desire to die) #but still hes so upset with telly they kinda just fought it out #and by fought it out i mean yves gave telly a smackdown #telly's a decent guy he just doesnt know when to not press ppls buttons #cuz he immediately implied a threat towards elias and thats what made yves just say fuck you and tackle the guy #alongside the martyr thing but thats where most of the rage towards telly is coming from #they just really dont get along. its very antagonistic towards each other. telly tried at some point but theres a huge disconnect #between the two #they dont get each other and they never will yk #yves is a powerhungry assholr and telly is an indecisive asshole

[kurozu501]

realizing that gundam seed’s final episode has truly become comfort media for me. ended up rewatching it again tonight. its not even that i think seed is a perfect show, even the final episode is kinda marred by flay getting fridged, its just that other then that its finale is such a perfect high energy emotional conclusion to everything it built up. 

i love how rau and kira’s duel/philosophical argument over humanity is punctuated by all the stuff going on in the background with athrun and the others. i love the star wars-esque high melodrama of “theres a nuclear death star pointed at the earth and we have to stop them from firing it RIGHT NOW” i love how athrun doesn’t get any final confrontation with his fascist dad, how the guy just snaps and shoots his own subordinate for daring to question his insane “nuke earth after we already won” plan. only for that same subordinate to murder him right back. something something fascism is a death cult eating its own tail. i love how kira and rau’s battle feels so intense because they completely shred each other’s gundams, to the point where at the moment of the final blow kira’s freedom is literally just a one armed, one legged, headless wreck but he still gets that damn sword into rau’s gut. i love how athrun tries to sacrifice himself and cagali wont let him and yells “its more of a battle to keep living!!!” i love how everyone cries so openly and emotionally with no shame. i love how in the end we get a melancholy moment of peace, kira floating in space wondering how it all got this bad, how they came to this, only to have his hope restored as he sees cagali and athrun coming to get him. its just so good. 

#gundam seed #kira yamato #athrun zala #cagali yula atha #even flay's blatent fridging kind of works for me as a last moment of tragedy alongside mu's death last episode #and yeah im ignoring destiny bringing mu back to life bc that was dumb and bad

[hartxstarr-art]

my vision. luvdisc.

#doodles #fanart #cowboy bebop #spike spiegel #trainer bebop #pokemon #luvdisc #''green why didnt you just photoshop them in instead'' because i wanted to talk about the au. in the tags. #i have no other outlet to talk about trainer bebop okay. anyways. #ive been thinking lately that like. spike had given julia an applin. #and then she dies. and then i just #forgot about the applin???? #(at that point a flapple.) #what im saying is that spike SHOULD keep the flapple but that also #ruins my vision. my spike pink pokemon only vision. #its so awful. i hate this life. spike cant keep the flapple because ITS NOT PINK!!!!!!!!!! #death and destruction. chaos blast. im losing my mind. #WHAT HAPPENS TO HER FLAPPLE?? #i fucking. kill it alongside her. thats so sad. but it would be symbolic..... #i hate this life i dont want to kill it. but it must be done. #im crying. #anyways this is what i wanted to work through in my head. thanks guys.

[vocesincaput]

OPEN STARTER: Izzy Hands

Each and every night for over a week, a seagull would land upon the makeshift at the head of a grave. Until one night, the top layer of earth began to shift, the disturbance in the soil growing more and more until fingers could be seen clawing out.

Frantic fingers became hands, became arms until finally the mans face appeared with gasps for air. Coughing up dirt that had filled his throat and nose as he dragged himself out from beneath the ground to lay sprawled out on the ground beside where his body had once led.

Confused, delirious, Izzy managed to sit himself up enough to cough up the rest of the dirt before looking around. It took a moment for his eyes to focus. Nothing around him looked remotely familiar. Not the coastline, not the rundown looking cabin behind him... not until his eyes fell upon what sat at the head of where he climbed out of.

The wooden leg the crew made for him.

Izzy frowned as he looked at it, noting the piece of wood attached to it. His brow furrowed and he looked down at himself and then at the earth he just dragged himself out of. The realisation was slow until suddenly the memory of it came rushing back to him, making him close his eyes and hold his head.

He had died...

He had died on the Revenge's deck with Ed over him. It was still a little bit hazy but he remember what had happened. But it just made the former first mate more confused and he looked down at himself. How was he alive? How was this possible?

Izzy's mind ran through so many things all at once before settling on Ed and the crew... He could only imagine what they must be going through with all the hell Ricky seemed to want to bring down on them all.

Izzy didn't even think about how they would coping with his death. If they had not buried him at sea like anyone who lived their life upon it deserved and instead an unfamiliar location with none of them around... he must not have meant as much to any of them as he thought that he was starting to. Sighing at the thought, the former first mate ran his hands over his face before looking back out over the view, lit by the pale moonlight.

If they had buried him in such a place, they were all better off not knowing he was alive once more. They must have made their peace with it if they had abandoned him in a grave, they didn't need to know. And so after removing the piece of wood from his wooden leg, Izzy strapped it on and struggled to his feet before heading off into the night.

Izzy was alone now. He couldn't go back to life he had once lived, not if everyone was to believe he was still dead. He had to start anew.

After walking through the night and into the early hours of the morning as the sun rose on the horizon, Izzy encountered two people asleep beside the burnt out embers of a campfire. Moving as quietly as he could, he slid a knife out of the sheath next to one of them before making quick work of killing both and hiding their bodies. Returning to their campfire, the former first mate got it going again slightly before changing out of his dirtied and bloodied leathers into some of the clothing he found at the camp.

Knowing that he would need to look different if he was going to go unnoticed, Izzy sat beside the campfire and took the knife once more. Slowly and carefully cutting off his hair until it was in a far shorter style than he had ever worn. The feel of it strange beneath his fingers as he ran his hand through the short strands. He smirked sadly before carefully using the knife to shave off his beard. Leaving just the moustache.

Afterwards, he ate some of the food supplies and tried to think of a plan to do next. As if was lost in thought, Izzy's eyes settled upon the golden unicorn leg.

That... was definitely something that was going to have to change.

Even after having buried where he had and feeling abandoned and unwanted by the crew, Izzy couldn't bring himself to just throw it away. So, he worked at removing the leg from the harness and placed it into a bag that was sat next to where one of the men had been sleeping. He then took a piece of wood from what he assumed was supplies for the fire and began to whittle and carve away for a few hours until it resembled something that would work as a leg. Attaching it to the harness, Izzy thought about how he had had to relearn to do most things with the unicorn leg and sighed.

He couldn't dwell on the past. Not now.

After packing what supplies he could into the small bag, Izzy headed off again. Walking for far longer than he should with his wooden leg until he came upon a small village. After talking with a man in the inn there, giving him the name of Hes (short for Hesikia, a family name), he managed to get a room in exchange for work in the inn.

Some time passed and Izzy settled in at the Inn. Working various jobs around the place, mostly repairing what he could. Whenever any people would come in that he knew were pirates, Izzy would slip out of sight. Giving an excuse that it brought back memories of how he lost his leg after his former home had been attacked by pirates. Even with his shorter hair and no beard, he knew some may still recognise him and would definitely recognise his voice.

It was the middle of the day and Izzy was working on repairing a chair leg whilst sat at the back of the inn, mostly out of sight, when he heard a voice that made him still completely. Breath catching in his throat.

He knew that voice...

Swallowing, the former first mate looked out from where he was sat. Instantly recognising who it was. Cursing under his breath and knowing that he could easily be seen and possibly still recognised, Izzy got up and, as carefully and quietly as he could, began to make his way to the door that led to the backstairs up his room. He needed to get out of there for a few hours. Out of sight until the familiar face had left.

Making it up to his room, Izzy closed the door and moved over to the window. Glancing out to check if he could sneak out onto the small balcony and away. He was just about to climb out of the window when there was a sharp knock at his door.

#ic #muse: izzy hands #verse: izzy hands : new life #non rp blogs do not interact #non rp blogs dni #non rp blogs will be blocked #non mutuals do not interact #death mention cw #cw death mention #buried alive tw #tw: buried alive #tw buried alive #//please continue in a new post #//as it helps me keep track of things easier #//so apparently Hesikia is another possible name he was known by alongside Basilica #//please do not feel as if you need to match the length #//i got carried away with 1164 words.... lol #open starter: izzy hands #open starter

[posts-for-when-im-high]

Just bought another wet specimen from Etsy oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

#this one is so cool and unique #i debated whether or not to buy it for a few days but someone else had it in their cart and I panicked #it's a veterinary specimen of a kitten (failure to thrive #passed away naturally from a lung issue or blockage) #and it's BISECTED like one half of it is still normal and covered in fur #BUT THE OTHER SIDE has an opening into the chest cavity so you can see the lungs in the rib cage and the other lower organs too #and the head omg there's a straight clean cut down the front of the face and the other side of the head is bare bones skull #it's legitimately one of the coolest anatomical examples I've ever seen preserved and I'm vibrating with excitement #can't wait to add this sweet baby kitten to my collection!! #i also have a leopard gecko specimen (his name is Barney) #he dropped his tail shortly before he passed away due to old age and they preserved his tail alongside his body in the jar!!! #another very neat anatomical display ahhhh #i know it's morbid but I love giving these creatures a second 'life' in death

[chaosandwolves]

We really waited here years and years after watching Derek being traumatized over and over to see him finally being at ease and happy just to watch him getting violently killed off by being burned...

You really can't make that shit up.

They could've given us that one thing... But I guess they really don't want to make us happy.

#But of course they didn't #Btw I don't think Derek is dead dead #He's vanished alongside the Nogitsune #Trapped in another realm or between life and death just like Allison #But it's still so fucked up #It would've cost them nothing to give us that #I won't get over this #I'm sorry but I won't #Derek Hale means so much to me #They just could've made a cute lil movie that left everyone happy but decided to do that #I can't believe it #derek hale #teen wolf movie

[bayofwolves]

eyedress — jealous is such a david animorphs song. word for word

#first couple of lyrics are directed at cassie btw #their relationship is so interesting and important to me #she was the only one who cared :( #my boy is a sociopath #but who can blame him for the way he acted? #he lost his parents to a fate worse than death #then was forced to fight for what little quality of life he had left #alongside fellow children who disliked and distrusted him every step of the way #man. #text #animorphs

[anarkhebringer]

I finally saw the cutscene of Karlach visiting her parents' graves with Null and I've had tadpoles about it all this time

#baldur's gate 3 spoilers #OC: Null Number #category 7 autism event in the tags incoming #imagining Null visiting his own family's graves that night #he'd told they're buried in the city graveyard but didn't tell where #so late that night Astarion notices him slinking out of camp and decides to follow him out of curiosity #and what does he find but Null standing at three graves in a line for his parents and sister #and it's the most heartbroken Astarion's ever seen him #he's sobbing so hard no noise is even coming out aside from shaky breaths and the occasional whimper #repeating to himself what he said to Karlach about becoming soil‚ water‚ and air‚ and how we don't die‚ we change #and now Astarion understands why Null looked so distant in his gaze despite the warmth of his smile when talking with Karlach #he didn't even approach like he planned to he just left and let Null be alone #his entire plan fell apart seeing how broken Null was and he had no clue what he could even say in that moment #sorry I'm exploding about this because Null's been raw about his family's deaths his entire life #and the Emperor's first meeting with him being in the form of his sister didn't help AT ALL #like his main goal in life alongside getting his wings and power back by breaking the curse he's under is finding solace in their deaths #he just wants peace and for them to rest in peace knowing he loves them and still lives for them #anyway #sad fae that's cursed to live as a drow hours again I'm so fucking happy I made Null in this game and made an AU for him

[eldritch-araneae]

Feeling angsty bc I want to have intimate relationship with someone, but I don't want sex and romance in it.

And I just know I probably never meet that person bc some many ppl still convinced that sex and romance are the most important things in life, and it's worth to sacrifice all their friends in favor of "one true love". They can't respect my boundaries bc they think I'm broken and they must fix me.

I really dodged the bullet in the past and broke up, otherwise idk what would happen if this guy decided that he will "fix me" himself since I won't go to doctors.

So yeah, idk when this gonna be the time when ppl learn about consent and boundaries and how being different doesn't mean "being broken" need "fixing", I probably won't find anyone. Especially where I live.

#ara talks #being aroace is though bc of all this hidden crap that makes your life less fulfilling unless you allo and romatic #like even being single is hard bc it's fucking expensive! #and how couples pay less taxes! #and being bullied for this too alongside being ND and poor #like there is so much all this and it's weaved into out everyday life #that sucks a lot and you cant even tell ppl about this bc you get swarmed with ppl trying to gaslight you and sending death thread #and the truth is this hate is just wont do anything good for everyone and it help awful ppl in power hurting us all #while the community fights itself #vent

[shrikeseams]

once again contemplating Indis's unacknowledged and unnamed friends, faced with a choice between voicing their concerns about her choice of husband (whether for religious or practical reasons) and biting their tongues just to guarantee that they'll still be friends with her when that relationship crashes and burns one way or another.

#Tolkien #Like as someone who views divorce and remarriage as positive social goods #I would be in such turmoil about a friend who decided to marry a guy who... wants to perma-fridge his first wife to remarry #Like even if you take the death element out of the equation #I feel like the modern analog is that miriel has awful persistent suicidal post-partum depression #And while I do believe that a marriage should end when the spouses' life goals diverge! #If you do the divorce while the first spouse is chronically ill specifically because you have chosen a new spouse already! #I would not trust you to do right by the second spouse either! #And that's *without* any cultural expectation of a permanent marriage! #That's *without* the untranslatable element of Finwe feeling like perma-death is something he has the right to ask of Miriel! #...and it only gets *more* fraught if you think indis&miriel are BFF or miriel/finwe/indis is ot3 #Because in those scenarios Indis is asking for these things alongside Finwe #...and then imagine trying to still be friends with indis after watching her do that to one of her other friends #...anyway. I still think Indis's social circle contracts sharply post-marriage in ways that don't entirely hinge on leaving her culture