#nature's shackles

[cinnaminsvga]

actual conversation i had with my dental hygienist

hygienist: so what did you study at university?

me: chemistry...

hygienist: damn, no wonder you look so sad!

#this is especially funny now that i got a new job and it has like... barely anything to do with my degree LMAOOOO #mostly bc the job market is rough rn and i kinda need the money more than anything... but damn LOL #and then he proceeded to give me a speech about his own road to becoming a hygienist #how he started in business but then hated it so he started dj-ing #then found that he got bored of it and so he went to med school. but found that too much of a hassle as well #so now hes in dental school and working as a hygienist as he completes his schooling and is NOW debating on changing careers again #and like noah fence to the guy i know he was trying to be encouraging about how 'ur degree shouldnt shackle u to one type of career' #but also his carefree nature is sending alarm bells in my head bc the only ppl who speak like that are people who can Afford #to soul search like that. bc if i knew my parents are there to catch me if my new venture failed #damn i'd do fucking whatever i wanted to as well!! but ofc idk if hes really rich like that #he did have an aura tho. rich people aura. they got a way of talking sometimes... especially western ppl.... #ANYWAY.... just wanted to share how i got scalped with my mouth wide open filled with blood thank u for listening to my ted talk #zee talks

[novantinuum]

random post, but there's like... only a single point of SU canon that I outright ignore, and that's the tiny moment at the beginning of Monster Reunion where Steven somehow "mends" a plushie as their re-introduction to his healing powers.

i think this is very lame and personally ignore the idea that he can "mend" matter that isn't organic or gem in nature completely, because i just don't see how it makes sense. i would've far preferred him re-discovering his powers by healing a wilting flower or something

#*shrugs* idk man i just don't think it makes sense #it's Too Powerful an ability if he can just fuckin mend any object #keeping it shackled to organic or gem only falls more in line with how literally ALL of his other powers work #with him straddling both of these worlds- and thus being able to influence both of them #this is also why healing the geode in House Guest might not've worked to begin with #like... IS it gem in nature? it's a bit fuzzy #jen rambles

[dokutah-exe]

decided to create a new department named "the bureau of divorced women" to aid the ever-growing amount of divorced operators that continue to join us

#arknights #naturally its run by my dearest kal'sit #who and i quote #“will use this resource as a foundation to remind others to feel safe in not being shackled under the shadows of their former spouses” #my scrawny ass so thin it aint even a shadow being cast #its a two dee object #god

[paper-lilypie]

Thinking about Loki and Mobius again

#marvel #lokius #ITS ABOUT WANTING TO BE KNOWN AND BEING KNOWN SO INTIMATELY EVEN THE UGLY AND BAD #ITS ABOUT TRUSTING ANOTHER INTO KNOWING YOU AND LOVING YOU REGARDLESS #ITS ABOUT LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER AND BECOMING THE BEST VERSIONS OF YOURSELF THROUGH GROWTH AND SELF REFLECTION #ITS ABOUT MANIFESTING INTEGRITY IN CHAOS AND FREE WILL IN ORDER #ITS ABOUT DISMANTLING A TYRANNICAL BUREAUCRACY TOGETHER #ITS ABOUT FIGHTING SIDE BY SIDE AGAINST THE VERY FORCES OF TIME SPACE AND MEMORY #ITS ABOUT FINDING EACH OTHER LOSING EACH OTHER AND BATTLING TO SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN #ITS ABOUT A GODLY BEING FEELING SEEN BY A MORTAL MAN WITH A HEART OF GOLD #ITS ABOUT BREAKING AWAY FROM THE SHACKLES OF OBEDIENCE AND EMBRACING THE WILD NATURE OF CHOICE #FUCK #PARDON ME THE FEELS RUSHED THROUGH OUT OF NOWHERE #ANYWAYS #zip it lily

[journey-to-the-attic]

Okay idea for the Dragon AU--

WHAT IF Diavolo is the king and Barbatos is his servant and Diavolo is secretley half-dragon on Sonnos side? And him trying to make peace with dragons is so he can reveal to his people that he's half-dragon and show they aren't bad

But at the point of the AU, people still hate them hence IK stumbling upon Mammon deep in the woods after being accused of being a witch

The reason I thought of this is because I think an AWESOME concept would be if Barbatos was a dragon that learned how to take on a human disguise and act like a human

But as a dragon he's like oroboros!!!! He's watched the rise and fall of both dragon and human kind over and over and over, essentially watching the world eat its own tail and unfortunately he's as much of a slave to it as everyone else, it's just that he's one of the only ones who realizes and actively remembers ALL of it

And he's hoping that Diavolo (with the power of this strange little human) might be able to break this cycle

Just an idea but my brain is firing at 100% right now

ohohohoooo this is GOOD

okok so imagine that diavolo's been (subtly) trying to make contact with the full-blood dragons, but barbatos knows this never works out - no matter how promising things start out, something always ends up going wrong, because there is a fundamental mistrust between both humans and dragons

so there's always a miscommunication that makes either side think they've been betrayed, or one side will be too tense and convinced they'll be attacked, so prematurely attack the dragons in retaliation; it always ends in either a mass-hunting of dragonkind, or destruction of the kingdom

but then this cycle is the first time ik shows up, and this important because ik explicitly trusts that her friends will NOT do anything to hurt her on purpose - the kind of unwavering faith that diavolo wants to establish between humans and dragons

of course, there's a bit of an obstacle in that ik is also mistrusted at this point - "of course the witch child would ally with those wicked dragons!" - i imagine there'd be moments where public opinion begins to change, e.g. when ik along with one of the brothers helps save a merchant being robbed by bandits

maybe they get on diavolo's radar for the first time because one of the nobles in his court (om mephistopheles perhaps) gets attacked by monsters while technically invading the dragons' territory, but the brothers save and then return him back to safety. to diavolo this is a MIRACLE, and he MUST meet this witch-child who's prompted the dragons to show compassion to humans immediately

(to put an ironic twist on this, maybe the reason ik's never appeared before now is because barbatos's attempts to set things on the right track in previous cycles always butterly-effected into her being killed prematurely; she only survives in this one because barbatos is standing back in the hope that diavolo would be able to break the cycle)

(he only figures this out upon going back over his memories from past cycles - since at the time the deaths were just part of the (what he thought was) inevitable collateral damage of his efforts)

#answering asks #whensam #ouhhhh the ouroboros thing!!!!! sam your brain is so unfathomably big #dragon au #jtta aus #i think this is a constant with barbatos... always over-burdening himself with the inevitable nature of fate #and the things that he can or cannot do under time's shackles #only for ik to come along and show him that the solution is simple really #love is enduring!! love moves all!!! and she can fit so much love inside her little body!!!!!! #the thing about ik is that she thinks she can hold whole world in her hands when she cares enough. and you know what she's right

[musclesandhammering]

A Concept: Loki gets in a situation where his magic is bound or he’s facing someone with stronger magic than him or something and everyone expects him to just be screwed, but instead he simply starts drawing runes and reciting spells and proceeds to wreck their shit.

“I’m not the most powerful sorcerer in Asgard because my magic is the strongest, I’m the most powerful sorcerer in Asgard because I know how to use magic the best.”

#like let’s be clear his magic as it stands absolutely is the strongest in Asgard #but I’m talking about if he were going up against someone like maybe Hela etc #I just love the idea of loki not only relying on the sheer power of his magic but also #having more expansive and in depth knowledge of how to use magic in general than literally anyone else #like someone thinks they’ve got him helpless if they completely cut off his access to his magic #but you thought wrong bitch here come some incantations #what I’m saying is he is made of both natural talent and honed skill #even if he had no magic of his own at all #he’d still figure out how to draw on the magic in the world around him #like a lot of sorcerers do (strange for example) #and kick some serious ass #you do not have the upper hand just cause you made some cute little magic blocking shackles is what I’m saying #loki #loki meta #ish #magic #asgardian magic #mcu magic

[withinthebrain]

Moon in Shackles

The moon glistened as it hung heavy in the night sky. It seemed to grasp the wisps of foreboding clouds to keep from falling below the horizon. Cloud after cloud danced around the moon, crowding closer and closer. Clouds encircled the glow of the moon choking out its light. Held in the sky by the chains of clouds, the moon peeked through the ominous grey shackles to peer at the world below.

#moon #imagery #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #writing #nature #description #shackles #dark night #writing about nature #autumn #fall #EKW

[heraldofcrow]

Last few seconds of Ebrietas’ theme:

Last few seconds of Hail the Nightmare:

#when the choir practically screams “sanguine” #ugh i get the creeps every time #can you guys tell i’m playing through bloodborne and i’m in yahar’gul a lot lately #fighting ebrietas is like “HAHA YES PRAISE THE COSMOS!” #i deliberately draw out her theme to see her do the call beyond with that music omg #but i can barely listen to Hail the Nightmare lol #contrary to my Gothic nature #i am in the shackles of terror #bloodborne

[kan-bu]

feeling petty cause i cant be in denial about not needing glasses anymore :( im hit with the slightest fatigue and the world turns into a blurry unfocused halo of light

#x #i dont have anything against glasses but like #there is a creature inside me who screams about not getting shackled by the nature of things etc etc very loudly

[awkward-dazai]

IT HAS TAKEN ME FUCKING YEARS BUT IM FINALLY ABLE TO ACCESS THIS GODAWFUL ACCOUNT. i dont apologize for any inactivity and im surely not making a comeback, personally i’d like to forget this fucking blog ever existed. but im back nonetheless to give a life update or closing statement before i log out and finally live my life peacefully or smthn.

1. im not like this anymore. jesus christ. fortunately i’ve matured as a person now that i’m nearly 18 years old and i actually understand bungo stray dogs now.

2. nothing on here reflects who i am now. i fucking hate soukoku. i hate sskk. i hate bsd ships. i think a lot of the jokes on here were in poor taste and the whole schtick was character inaccurate… it was definitely fun at the time, but, alas, it is not that time anymore.

3. i have a new tumblr tjat u should probably go follow instead of this one if u ever want to see content from me. @nouveauxamoris 👍🏽

4. this has no relevance to anything else im just spreading my propaganda . chuuya nakahara is a trans woman . dazai osamu is a transmasc lesbian. dazai and chuuya have the exact same relationship dynamic as branch and his sleazy older brother from trolls. skk yaoi was never real and i no longer pretend like it was

#Im free from my shackles #no lomger held down by my haunting past that is awkward-dazai on tumblr dot com #nobody should have ever let me have access to tumblr at god knows how old i was when i made this #i promise im normal now #Not really #ive just learned how to be media literate and have gotten progressively more autistic abt bsd #I also realized that bsd ships kinda suck and really i shouldve jsut embraced my true nature instead #selfshipping. I wanted dazai osamu. I want him real bad. And now i self ship. #word of advice from your good old friend amoris awkward dazai #your enjoyment of anything media related will definitely improve once you embrace self shipping #you can do tjat. Its fine. nobody can stop you. be free #awkward-dazai #i hope u guys had fun w this blog im pretty sure i did #i loathe it now but it was 13 year old me’s pride and jou #i want it to become lost media so i can pretend like it never existed but #alls well that ends well or some bullshit like that #happy 2024 guys

[akuzeisms]

So something I’ve been working on recently (prompted by Marnie a mutual who mentioned watching a playthrough as a great means to familiarize/re-familiarize with the series) is… an edited cinematic style playthrough of the trilogy. I’ve managed to pare things down in the playthrough to only the most majorly important aspects of the playthrough (i.e. skipping the majority of side quests), along with some reorganization of clips or clever use of clips to make things flow more like a movie format. While it’s by no means perfect, it’s a little more digestible than skipping through hours of gameplay.

Currently, I am still working on this as I am in the midst of a full playthrough of the trilogy. This version is only going to feature Kaidan’s romance path, though it will feature the events of the Virmire Savior Mod (allowing for both Ashley and Kaidan to be saved on Virmire, and subsequently be part of things in the remainder of the trilogy). Each “episode” is roughly movie length, averaging out at around 1 hour and 20 minutes per clip.

#psa. ❖﹙ take those mental shackles off and throw them away. ﹚ #this is okay to reblog if you’d like to share! I just ask that it only be shared by RPC accounts and not fan accounts. #& generally speaking while Kat’s dialogue is paragade most of her primary decisions are paragon in nature #& there tends to be a lean toward paragon or paragon-leaning Shepards in the RPC from what I have noticed #so really the majority of major decisions made that affect the major story are applicable to a large number of portrayals

[possussy]

I dislike the speed of the moon.

#moon #its speed is unsettling in nature #fear #if i ever arrive on that motherfucker i shall weigh it down with the heaviest iron shackles man can forge

[idyllicbby]

flatten hair ≠ “shrunken”natural hair ≠ stretched hair

all of these term mean different things. your stretched hair is not your “true length.” your true length should not required manipulation for it to be brought out.

an analogy to further explain would be your height when you are sitting down ≠ you height when you are standing upright ≠your height on your tip-toes. the doctors check your true height at your un-manipulated standing state

#lmk if i need to explain more cause i will #let’s release ourselves from the shackles 🙏🏾 #simplified natural hair care #natural hair #natural hair community #彡: girl you just be talking!

[novablisters]

“oh btw you have to be this gender and it defines how people perceive you and how you have to act and also you have to play an emotional puzzle game full of pins and needles and knives to love in this specific way to be fulfilled and it has to be with this gender and they have to look a certain way or else you’re a moron with low standards and you have to dress this certain way and if you for some reason don’t have enough control to do this we will try to strip you of the inherent value you have by merit of being alive in the eyes of man and regardless you will have to do gymnastics to figure out how to survive in this complicated system we built that doesn’t care about you as anything more than a replaceable cog”

awesome! great! one question, can I as a living sentient being have my own feelings? two questions, actually, can I decide how I want to live? three. can I decide anything about who I am. why do I have to live by your rules. do I have freedom in any way that matters. do you even want me to. you will continue to try to stomp me out as if I am a pesky fire. will I burn you?

#started from gender dysphoria but the first sentence snowballed because it’s almost valentines day #and then #bashing my head against the wall #there’s million things I could tag this with but you know what I Don’t Fucking Care #I am built to LOVE I AM BUILT FOR JOY AND PLEASURE AND #NOBODY IS LISTENING EVERYONE IS PLAYING THE GAME I WANT OUT I WANT OUT OF IT I AM SHACKLED AND CHAINED BY THINGS NOBODY BATS AN EYE AT #I am so lonely in ways that nobody understands #the salmon are kissing and it sounds like the words of god #I just want to love #but the way I do is wrong #I cannot love myself because I am Wrong #but I do anyway #and I love you and I love bizarre campy shit and I love childish things and I love diversity and I love living and I love freedom #and I love art and I love life and I love subtle small things about nature and even human society #I love the complex and the nebulous and the indescribable and I love you formulaic and I love you pain and I love you light #and I love you darkness and I love you horror and I love you hope and I love you broken and shattered and Wrong #is it so selfish to want to be loved in return #to be loved for all that is both understood and impossible to understand about me #to be loved by someone who can also see the destructive force in car exhaust and fall in love with it #but also see the creek flow and fall to their knees because it is so beautiful that by chance we have water and therefore life #to be loved in a way so raw that to deem it romantic is to dumb it down #but nothing can ever be Truly understood #science is an endless game of desparately clinging to sense #as we write what we find only to discover something else completely is true #maybe we’re all the atom #model after model is drawn but we may never really know what and why and how #we try to draw it but it can never be so simple

[bitten-fruit]

Simon forgets how strong he is

18+ MDNI - cw: bruising - ~700 words

just some Simon Riley NSFW brainrot ♥︎ - part 2-ish, and part 3-ish here!!

Simon forgets how to be gentle.

When he's at war, fighting and shooting and killing day and night, all he knows is hardness. Brutality. Ruthlessness. His hands and heart grow calloused and rough in his months away from you. Using his unfathomable strength to survive is what he grows used to, it becomes second nature.

But it's your softness he remembers, to keep himself sane. It's all he thinks about. Dreams of.

The way the flesh of your hips, your ass, your breasts, your belly, pillows so deliciously between his fingers when he squeezes his handful - so warm, so supple. The way your vanilla-balmed lips graze his scarred skin so tenderly, however undeserved your sweetness is.

And when he finally returns home, after months of missing, craving you - when you stand in the door, honey thighs bare by virtue of the black panties you wore just to torture him, soft tummy peeking out from under your crop-top - he just can't restrain himself.

You greet him with your sugary smile, stretching up on your toes to curl your loving arms around his neck - your gentle voice, music; "Si, ah! I'm so glad you're okay…"

The moment your velvet skin touches his, his shackles crumble. Like a beast starved, he clutches you. Mammoth arms curl around you, constricting, gripping you eagerly like you might be a dream; liable to turn to a memory, to smoke.

His avaricious embrace lifts your feet from the ground, though he doesn't mean to - he burrows his nose and mouth into the crook of your neck, lets the curls of your hair smother him and fill his chest with the faint scent of your fruity shampoo. Fights every urge to take a bite, like you're a ripe nectarine.

Growls into your skin, through his jaw; "I fuckin' missed you, love. Christ, you have no idea how much I missed you."

"I missed you too, baby…" you coo into his ear, even your breathing is tender - he can't take it.

So he ferries you immediately to the sitting room, scoops you up like you weigh nothing, lets you coil your buttery thighs around his waist as he sits you on his lap on the sofa.

His wide hands take their greedy handfuls of your body - of your waist, of your hips, of your thighs, of your ass. Finally indulging the impulses he had dreamed about for so long - the very image he had fucked his fist to more times than he could count while parted from you.

With his teeth on your shoulder, tongue laving your warm skin; "So fuckin' soft," he grumbles deeply, and urges, "pretty thing. So soft. Fuck, I missed you."

His cock is hasty to grow boulder-solid under his trousers, and he chastises himself - but you answer with a cloying giggle, grinding your mound against its rigidity as if to torment him.

"Mm, you did miss me," you tease, little brat.

Then in an instant, all he can think about is the softness of your syrupy pussy, the gumminess of the inside of your cunt as its walls caress and milk his cock like it was built just to fit him.

You make him fucking ravenous, so voraciously eager to have you that he doesn't even notice his hands turn to vices around your flesh - fingers burrowing so deeply into the cheek of your ass that he might break through the skin.

"Ah!" You yelp, "Ow - Simon - you're hurting me-"

Your squeak of pain is enough to immediately shatter him - so he rapidly lifts you off of him, protecting you from his impulse. Stands you on your feet so that you're no longer victim to his inability to control himself.

"Shit, I'm sorry-" he grunts under his breath, "I'm sorry."

"It's okay, it's-" Your brows curl in worry, turning to look at where he had clawed you - and he sees the purple bruises where his hand had wrenched the flesh of your ass, the red lines where his fingernails had nearly punctured you. "Oh," you breathe at the sight, "…wow."

Drowning in visceral shame, he can barely bring himself to touch you again. But your soft hand caresses his hair, running through the sandy tresses - you, somehow, the one to comfort him.

"It's okay, baby, I know you didn't mean to," you purr fondly, and he leans forward to shamefully press as soft a kiss as he can into the bruise he gave you. Fucking monster.

"I'm sorry," he croaks into your skin, hoping his guilt will reverse his barbarity. "I just missed you."

"I know," you croon, turning to plant a loving kiss into his hair. "It's okay."

You guide him to lean back, mounting his lap again, letting your pelvis grind against the erection you were quick to reawaken.

His hands barely ghosting over your skin, he restrains himself, touches you carefully.

You whisper, into his stubbled cheek; "I'll show you how to be gentle again."

#bet simon knows how to apologise to you #spoilers it involves his tongue #cod fic #cod smut #simon riley x reader #simon ghost riley x reader #simon riley x female reader #ghost x reader #call of duty smut

[mostlykind]

the guy I was speaking to said he doesn’t think we’re compatible and I’ve never been happier lmao

#I could have rejected him first but his answers were great l #he just lives in Manchester which I do not want to move to #so I’m glad he decided he doesn’t think our ideas ‘align’ #cos my one reason was silly #he has released me from the shackles and I am once again man free <3 #I refuse to speak to anyone else from now on #I will either meet my future husband naturally and ROMANTICALLY or not 😭😭 #rahma’s rambles