#s/i: Tether

[dzvagabond]

For better, for worse,

for richer, for poorer,

in sickness or in health,

to love and to cherish

till death do us part.

Happy Valentine's Day my dear,

I will love and care for you

until we breathe our last breath.

#Happy Valentine's Day everyone! #finally got the Heartman and Tether wedding 3-4 years later #and i couldnt think of a better date than the day they got engaged #my art.exe #heartman.tm #s/i: Tether #otp: pull on heartstrings

[necropathys]

rgrk 🌙🌑⛓️

SwapDream Nightmare by @song-song-a-deactivated20230619

Nightmare Sans by @jokublog

#i want them to run away together #and to be GROSSLY codependent #or toxic and forced to hurt each other to survive under swad's grasp #they dont even realize theyre doing iy but theyre s t a r v i n g abd theres a source of negativity. right there. #each other's only tether to sanity and resistance in that hell #hahaha anyway #undertale au #swapdreamtale #nightmare sans #dreamtale #swapdream nightmare #I just want them to stare at each other and recoil at what they see in the mirror #but understand #“how could i become that kind of person” but. they know exactly how

[manygreetingsfriend]

i’m sooooooo normal about the god of war series. so incredibly normal i liked it a normal amount and would be so chill talking about it. don’t worry about the sign

#god of war #i’m so so so so so normal about it it’s so whatever it’s so haha you know #something something when it comes to yourself you’ll let yourself drown before you change. you’ll die before you change who you’ve become #to survive this long #up to and until it affects the ones you’ve come to love in this life you’ve made for yourself and you suddenly have no choice but to change #it’s fine it’s ok it’s chill. everyone does this. #it’s becoming a parent and loving your child so much you HAVE to change. you HAVE to be better #we MUST be better. than they were. #who’s they. our parents. the gods that come before us. yes. #i’m screaming i’m crying i’m wasting away im disintegrating. there’s no coming back there no return #you are on your knees. you are gripping your son’s shoulders like they’re the only thing keeping you tethered to the earth. #you are struggling with who you are and who you want to become. you are promising to be better. #i’m so normal about parent(al figures) taking responsibility for their actions and choosing to do better #i’m not high enough to really express what’s going on here. can you feel it? can you fucking feel it? #this series has destroyed me. #dad of boy. dad(s) of boy. i will never be the same (affectionate) #can’t remember the last time i finished a series and went ‘oh well i’ve GOT to play it again Now That I Know’ #AND I HAVENT EVEN TALKED ABOUT THE BROTHER HULDRA!!!!!!!!! #sindri’s face. has not left my memory #i’m dying scoob #gow #gowr

[raayllum]

I love how we are basically opposites on the whole theory thing :

You predict plot points by making jokes that end up coming true

meanwhile me and my overdramatic mind obssesses over dark scenarios that would never fit into 9 episodes and then I'm surprised when they don't happen XD

Listen as long as you're enjoying what you're doing, I say have all the fun you want in fanon and taking insp from canon! That's the best part sometimes! <3

Although I have some things that started out as jokes that ended up being canon (my absolute favourite of which being this joke I made about Ezran in 2x04 that was then an actual thing in the s2 novelization) the weirdest thing for me has been like... the ultra specific thing / things I thought would be more metaphorical that ended up being more literal

AKA a list in no particular order

Me assuming since Through the Moon came out that Callum would inevitably play into Aaravos's hands and that the struggle to not do so would be his main conflict in arc 2 (which looking back, the possession plot line seems so thematically obvious I am genuinely a little sheepish I didn't see it coming)

The game motif being my favourite motif and then s4 fucking Delivered it was beautiful

Viren's atonement arc because of his eye symbolism

That the rune cube placement could be trusted to foreshadow things, specifically the Ocean rune in finding the prison and in foreshadowing Callum's dark magic use

Me going "Hey wouldn't it be Fucked Up if whatever comes out of the cocoon is like a child version of Aaravos?" (hi Sir Sparklepuff my beloved)

For that matter: that Aaravos would ask one of the mage fam to kill Sir Sparklepuff for a deep magic spell, and that they'd refuse to do so

Callum's interplay with freedom being too tethered to Rayla that I banked on her eventually being taken hostage and Callum doing morally ambiguous shit to save her like 3+ years in advance

Seeing Callum's S4 design for the first time and noting that the circlets around his wrists invoke chain symbolism but thinking "Nah him and Rayla being in chains like tarot cards will just be metaphoric right". Haha, no!

Ezran as the embodiment of Justice / the series' Witness (hell yeah thank you 4x03 & TOX for making Justice his highest value)

Predicting Rayla's entire arc 2 arc thus far re: her paranoid and restless nature being what puts them on the path to finding Viren and her wanting a rematch, the coins, and her self worth issues, written March 2020 (months before TTM came out)

Callum and Viren as each other's primary foils (begun before this but started being highlighted further from Nov 2019 onwards with specifically thinking that S4, as opposed to s3, would crank it up to an 11)

Rayla and Callum's whole ass light-dark motif that I thought would be a fun consistency in the background rather than a whole ass arc defining Thing

Characterization wise but Ezran as an Enneagram Nine The Peacemaker personality wise (once again thank u 4x03)

Back in Aug 2021 I noticed that bloodbending had thematic similarities to dark magic (in terms of framing, notions of control & agency) but again, didn't think it'd amount to literal likewise puppeteering (Aaravos is/was even imprisoned like Hama too!)

Seeing parallels between dark magic and thematic/metaphorical cannibalism / positing Aaravos as a cannibal in a fic I wrote in 2019 but never ever thinking it'd be more than metaphorical bc kids show, am I right? (when I tell you I screamed)

Like 3 weeks post s3 I came up with Political Trio Theory in which Ezran and Rayla are at odds about something and Callum is caught in the middle, as he agrees more with Rayla but feels like he should side more with Ezran, which an Ezran / trio centric conflict along those lines seems to be what we're going to get personally with Runaan / the coins in future seasons

Which, not only is it mostly to keep my English major-y brain sharp and my enclosure enriched (parallels are my perpetual hamster wheel), but it's also like... obviously predicting from theme/motifs isn't perfect, but it does mean you have all the right pieces. Then it just comes from running through the options to assemble what the puzzle might look like, & also thinking through the constraints of structure and run time (ergo I wasn't surprised when Callum didn't figure out the mirror himself in early S4 cause I just didn't think the show would have time for that kind of slow build).

Like following S2 I never really thought Callum's journey with dark magic was precisely over, firstly because I saw him absolutely as someone who would do dark magic / things he morally is against again if put in the exact circumstances he was in S5 (hence the CHET predictions post up above), but also because as our primary mage character and with dark magic being the core ethical dilemma for mage characters in the show, it just didn't make sense to assume that it'd be entirely resolved with a neat little bow 2/6 (since at the time we thought it'd be 6 seasons) in. Like - what? So that's something from an analytical standpoint of characterization, theme, and structure, for example, and TDP gives us a decent amount of time to get used to all those things especially in the first three seasons and then we can kind of build our predictions neatly from there.

So what usually happens is that I'll have a passing thought / gut reaction, think "huh maybe it's something," and then actually think about it for like 2 days to 2 weeks and realize that it loops back in with a lot of other stray thoughts and that there's something Substantial there. It never stops being wild

Anyway this was definitely way too long a response so TLDR; I'm always pleasantly surprised / excited whenever I predict anything correctly and also adore when the show throws me a curve ball (hi Terry <3), and the fun of theorizing (and sometimes throwing spaghetti at the wall) for me comes down to the themes and parallels and fun (fanon if nothing else) possibilities I can find. I love writing meta, speculative or purely analytical, even if/when they're often time consuming. My instincts haven't steered me too 'wrong' with TDP thus far, and I don't think they ever will!

#predictions achieved #tdp #the dragon prince #thanks for asking #firerose #masterpost #arc 1 #arc 2 #that said i did always think if claudia was going to have a partner it should be something tethered to the earth/nature in some way #bc of her mindset(s) and bc of her nature motif in her character design #so terry was both a surprise but not entirely unexpected on that level i suppose. i just never thought she'd have a canon partner #mini meta #analysis series #analysis

[stromuprisahat]

02×06: Ni Weh Sesh (I Have No Heart)- the rest

Awww! One speech by Kolya and First Army loves and accepts the Second!

Now Baghra was basically an adult, when she killed her sister, and "got banished"? More reasons for sympathy then! Look, she feels bad about it!

Alina's First Army uniform with Suns on shoulders is gonna give me nightmares. Some leader of Grisha!

Oh, and Aleksander can Cut whole army camp. Fascinating... I wonder why he never used it in a battle before? There shouldn't be any wars in Ravka, if it's this easy...

Huge fan of his evil little sidekicks. "Wow boss, you've totally annihilated them! Can we move on to killing children now?!" Just when I thought the writers can't get more pathetic.

Morozova did blood magic! For PLOT reasons! 

I can't! Jessie did puppy eyes! Why is she so cute?!

Here Baghra dies nobly saving Alina by ~fighting~ the Darkling! (By her suicide.) Do you know that feeling, when every molecule of your body wants to murder someone?

The Tether no longer exists. Not just that they made it all about the gross badge in Aleksander's hand, they destroyed it too...

"I set aside the remaining bone dust [from Baghra’s finger] to select Grisha." ...so now a single amplifier can be used by more Grisha? Or are they just gonna snort it for fun?

Malina kiss score: Whole shitload and a sex scene. Ew.

#Shadow and Bone #02×06: Ni Weh Sesh (I Have No Heart) #Nikolai Lantsov #First Army #Second Army #Baghra Morozova #Alina Starkov #The Darkling #General Kirigan #The Cut #Grisha loyalists #Ilya Morozova #Jessie Mei Li #The Tether #Vladim #grishanalyticritical #V #anti Baghra #anti S&B writers #anti Malina

[aeroknot]

whenever my dad would check in on my dungeons & dragons campaign he would listen with a smile and then unironically say “i think it needs more dragons”

well, dad: we met and made friends with a dragon last session, and he owes us a favor now, so we’ll probably see him again. i miss you. i hope it makes you happy.

#aero is real #dungeons and dragons #d&d #coming up on almost a year now #sometimes i feel like a total stereotype when playing this game. a little embarrassed. but he didn’t ever judge me for it #it surprised me when he even checked in #‘how you doing son?’ but for my PC lol #and despite my stupid hangups: #i CAN truly say that my campaign has been one of only two tethers to my sanity and resolve against the turmoil of my life since his passing #i can’t even express the value in it for me #the comfort #it’s probably why i’ve let go some of my resentment of CR c2’s ending and tried to reconnect to them thru cr c3 #bc i owe it to CR for finding these friends and a new hobby to do whatever it can to heal me no matter how slowly #aero talks in the tags #aero rambles in the tags #aero anecdotes

[astral-express-family]

Oh hey I don't think I ever posted this here. Family flowchart moment.

Familial day seemed like the perfect day to drop it <3

I can't believe I forgot to add Jasmine, my wonderful and lovely sibling-in-law Jasmine who I love to death <3

#familial f/o #s/i | celine aers/brown | detectives united #🔥👑 the scarlet princess | yasmina taylor #🪪💅 a shifting form | althena rivera #🫥🕵‍♂️ the invisible detective | dorian brown #placeholder eric trix tag 💜 #🫥🥀 blue rose in bloom | mortimer brown #👻🏨 the man who talks to ghosts | james blackthorne #🕰🪞 step into a memory | anna gray #🖼🎨 painting of the self | dorian gray #💀⌛️ a spirit tethered to earth | richard gray #⌚️🏞 another time another place | alice gray #🐶🕵‍♀️ full time detective part time dog mom | amber edevane #📜📞 limitless information | shade #placeholder jessica blackthorne tag 💜 #💛❤️💜 brought together by fate 💜❤️💛

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

I would just like to personally thank the Zombies 3 Exceptional Zed dance tutorial for helping me stay grounded to reality during my really bad dissociative episodes. Ur a real one <3

#this post is /hj but like #the power of Milo Manhiem is lowkey the only thing keeping me tethered to my body as of late #zombies #disney zombies #z-o-m-b-i-e-s #zombies 3 #exceptional zed #milo manheim #oh god damnit I spelled his name wrong earlier- #dissociation #derealisation #depersonalization #depersonalisation and derealisation #grounding #srsly if yall need a new grounding technique try out any dance tutorial at all #its rlly helpful :)

[nicheknowledge]

+ 1 time they found out about JayKyle

#vie writes #lol i feel like I read all of the JayKyle on Ao3 that interested me and now I've gotta make my own content smh #5+1 's are my shit and god bless winter_of_ice 's tethers for reminding me of that #jaykyle #jason todd #kyle rayner

[sprnkles]

' ( glowing ) : one muse silently grabs the other and points to a set of glowing eyes in the dark near them ' for @punktrsh

snow has a tendency to silence everything around it, wrapping all surroundings in a white blanket, and muffling all noises. silas has to admit that cold winter weather is his favorite. he likes the feeling of snow crunching beneath his boots. although it's foolish the consider it a reality, silas feels as if the cold tones down the heat constantly burning in his body.

a simple stroll around the neighborhood leads them through the local park. during the day, and when the weather permits it, children flock to the metal and plastic environment like ants to a drop of honey. but tonight it's empty, most of the bright colors blanketed in a sheet of fresh, glittering snow.

silas uses a bare hand to shovel the white stuff off the plastic swing. it melts upon impact, dripping down to the woodchips and slush as water. when he sits down, he can hear the slightest sizzle, like a hot coffee pot going back on the warming plate with droplets of liquid on it.

as the conversation begins, so does the slow movement of the swings. it's not a deep exchange of words, but it's enough to dull his senses, so much to the point where he almost didn't notice the set of eyes watching them from between tree trunks.

he observes it for a moment. when the pale yellow eyes blink, silas lets out a small, tired sigh. "what do you think it is?"

#∘⡊* ✶ S I L A S — interaction. #∘⡊* ✶ clap your tethered hands the best you can.

[keeps-ache]

yeah sure i'm awake but i'm also. awake.

cost

#just me hi #hmnm suddenly reminded last night that i have the barest of bare ideas of how tumblr's editing thing works #also i woke up hungry so you know what that means #~+~weird feeling in my heeeead~+~ #hunger should not affect the cranium don't do this to my body p l e a s e #oh yes i totally forgot #my brother keeps saying the stupid. b a hard k a word (i've decided against ever saying it) so i've started calling my siblings bestie and #it pains him :)))))))))))))))))))))))) hahahahaha #also i keep saying 'oh for realsies?' and i'm waiting for him to lose it #little does he know i am passively working towards finding more (what's the woooord uhhhhhhhhhhhh) sentences? words? #word things that have the same effect basically #hey if i went to go write right now wht would happen to my script #fearful of the power of a strange brain tethered to an exausted body #nah i won't write it'll prolly get really incoherant #and i'm just the epitemy of coherant aren't i? #THE WORD WAS PHRASES. #... #life footage of my thought process at all times #is tumblr gonna cut these tags? probably

[dzvagabond]

Vagabond's Valentine's Day Art Challenge Day 14/14:

"Happy Anniversary Heartman."

"5 years, and many more to come."

#HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY YALL #my art.exe #dzv valentine's day art challenge #Death Stranding.tm #heartman.tm #s/i: Tether #otp: pull on heartstrings

[realboutfatalfury]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay <- full of fighting games

#but not really full! can still play just taking a break bc that's important 👍 #tried almost everyone in strive yay (i say everyone bc i did not play zato. i know i'll hate it. i always hate it) #the usual cast is alright you know how they are #forgot they simplified i-no's inputs thank god. #DISAPPOINTED THEY TOOK OUT LEO'S REKKA. GOOOOOO TO HELL #not really but. why. why would you do this. i liked his rekka. it's fun. #if 236 s isn't going to follow up to anything else without rc then why. whyyy #tch whatever i'm over it. #goldlewis is kind of fun hehe but i'm not maining for the safeness of my stick o7 #jack-o changed sooooo much omg. i instinctively did 2k > c.s > 5s > 5h > 4d lol 😭 #sooooo sad that k normals don't cancel to s normals. except in the air. it makes me sooooo upset but i've already complained earlier. #uh ooh playing axl in strive feels great! i don't usually like playing him even i do might like playing him #<- plays whip and amane on occasion #uuuh may is fine 👍 love the um fireball (?) they gave her #testament is soooooooooo awesome i love you testament #giovanna and nago are great! i knew i'd like playing both of them #baiken is swag i miss her kabari follow-ups so much......tether is fun tho hehe #and they gave them a gun! swag #brisket is so so cool 👍 #happy chaos.................... he's fine. as an elphelt guy idk if i'll play him. i don't quite get how he works yet. but when i will... #thinking about it makes me scared. #gonna play with my sister later heeeeeheeee #not playing online yet bc i'm still getting used to how gatlings work also the throw button is now dust which will fuck me up i think #just gotta think strive is a whole other game rather than a guilty gear bc it really does feel like that 😭 #ah also still need to get used to wallbreaks.

[tojisun]

!! female reader; dirty talking; breeding kink; slight overstim play; unrealistic sex x’>

thinking about how simon’s the type to keep saying filth to you when he’s balls deep. how, in the throes of his pleasure, so pussy-drunk, simon begins to wax poetry about the way you make him feel.

he’s got you folded in a mating press, his lips ghosting wet kisses along your trembling legs. “god, baby,” simon murmurs, his voice a drunken slur. “i need t’wife you up, i swear.” he punctuates this with a thrust, before his fingers pinch your clit.

you choke at the feeling, your legs kicking from where they’re slung over simon’s shoulders. your head thrashes against the pillow, not knowing how else to tether yourself from the stinging pleasure, your mouth falling open uselessly as garbled moans spill out.

“oh this,” he says, distracted by your reaction. “cute little thing, isn’t it?” he looks at your pussy almost with a starry-eyed gaze.

jesus-

“shu-ut up, si!” your voice breaks, weakened from the moans, but simon’s already looking too far gone, his eyes blown wide and his face flushed because of his pleasure.

“y’just squeezed me tighter, baby.” simon rips his eyes from your cunt to look at you with a sort of giddy trance. “y’like it when i play with–” he circles his thumb on your clit, making you squeal. “this? yeah? oh, lovie, you’re gushing.”

he pulls out, torturously slow, teasing, then he’s slamming back in. your ears ring at the resounding wet slide, his pelvis meeting your own with a goddamn squelch, and you scream, clawing at his back at the sharp pleasure that razes through you.

“going t’stuff you w’my cum everyday, baby.” simon giggles. “going t’make you so full.”

he nuzzles his nose on the side of your tear-soaked cheek. “y’want that, yeah? want t’feel sore because of how much cum’s stored in you? want t’be fucked until it takes?”

what-

“si! si!” you cry, mushy mind trying to understand what he’s insinuating. “wha- wh-…?”

“oh but you’d be so gorgeous, baby,” simon groans, his hand leaving your oversensitive clit to hike up along your body, dancing past your groin to plant just below your belly button. simon nuzzles close again, tracing the shell of your ear with his lips, then, “you’d be so pretty carrying my kids.”

those words make your body lock up, something in your mind just shifting right, and then you’re cumming, squirting all over simon’s cock and spraying on his legs.

simon outright moans, pulling back just enough to slot his lips against yours. you couldn’t even kiss him back, still so busy cumming, all cross-eyed at the intensity of your orgasm. it doesn’t matter to him, anyway, not when simon begins pistoning harder. faster. rougher.

every drag of his cock back in your pussy pushes more gushing squirt from you, and simon rumbles with a pleased groan, looking so blissed out as he leaves open-mouthed kisses along your jaw. you dig your nails at his back but simon doesn’t even register the prickling pain, too busy chasing his own orgasm through your cunt.

“s’right,” he coos. “nothin’ else could make me cum, baby. nothin’ else but y’r pretty pussy. y’r tight pussy. god, it’s such a delicious pussy, baby, how am i so lucky to have you, huh?” his words mingle with the thwap-thwap-thwap sounds of his body slamming against your own. it makes you dizzy with pleasure, ragged rasps of breath is all that is passing through your parted lips.

simon croons. “how’d i chance luck and end up w’such a delight?” another wet sound from your pussy rings amidst his words. “mmm, hear that baby?”

you nod, you think. or you moan a reply. honestly, you don’t even know, not with how dizzy you are at the peaking pleasure because there’s no way you’re cumming again–

“that’s the sounds that a happy wife makes,” simon purrs, replying to his own question, and the weight of his words washes over you like the pleasure that’s racing across your synapses. “that’s the sound that someone makes when they want to be bred.”

“simo-nnnnn!” you scream, the sound guttural and ragged, and your eyes can no longer see anything, and your ears are ringing, and- and–

simon laughs, the sound curling into something so, so fond. “y’r so pretty when y’cum, baby.” he kisses your wet cheek. “one more? f’r me?”

fuck-

#suns #simon ghost riley x reader #simon ghost riley #simon ghost riley smut #simon riley x reader #simon riley #simon riley smut #female reader #IM CRYING BETWEEN MY LEGS WHEW

[travellermp3]

F/O songs #18

And I'd give up forever to touch you

'Cause I know that you feel me somehow

You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be

And I don't want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment

And all I can breathe is your life

And sooner or later, it's over

I just don't wanna miss you tonight

[INSERT NON-EXISTENT PICTURE OF ELIAS HERE]

#ship.txt #🦉💚 #f/o songs🎵 #I love thinking about a canon where Elias has enough humanity to pour all his love into a single person (me) #(or my S/I) #it's not a very healthy relationship tbh #not in an abusive way though. #it's more of a 'you are the one of my sole reasons for living (besides the Eye ofc. I would serve it too so it's fine) and if anyone so much #has a very slightly negative thought or thing about you I will make that persons life a living hell. you are the only person I care about #and you are the only thing left tethering me to my humanity' type of relationship #there's also a difference between my S/I and then when I'm just imagining Elias with just plain old me #I might expand a bit more on Annie because she's so vastly different than my other S/Is #most of my self inserts are me but Cooler #but Annie is so so different. the only things we have in common are that we're autistic and she studied anthropology #I don't have a phd (yet...) but she does #she's so girlboss and a complete asshole #tonight it's just me and elias though. :) #I know I'm rambling but it's been a bad day so I'm indulging in my cringe (affectionate) #Spotify

[degloved]

trying to make myself feel better by thinking "you've known he hasn't cared to be anything approaching kind since you were 11, you've known he hasn't really loved you that much since you were 11, you've been aware of this for 9 years already—you'll be fine." and then i remember i've been carrying this knowledge around for 9 years.

#i cant do this anymore i cant like. i cant #im venting on fucking tumblr about it jesus christ but i cant like im at the end of my fucking tether #i get lulled into this false sense of security because he decides to grace us with civilized behavior for a few weeks #and i relax. and then he does it Again and like #i almost wish he would be awful 24/7 so i dont allow myself to forget and even forgive #i dont know how much “he'll change this time oops nevermind”s i got left before i fucking snap for real i cant do this shit anymore #i hate him so much #i hate him #im angry again and i sont want to be !!!! ive been angry for so long ive lived my life in perpetual anger and im ready to let go #but he wont let me and i just i dont want to do this anymore #vent