#still thinking about these two

[simmersofia]

#still thinking about these two #i’ve literally made and remade the first post for this story so many times 🙈 #problem is i never get any further than the first post lol #sims 4 #ts4 #malcolm landgraab #wolfgang munch

[revelisms]

Excerpt: A Smart Little Fool

Sevika and Silco share a meal.

From 'both sides of the moon,' a oneshot exploring Silco and Sevika's relationship through a series of business ventures. Full story on AO3

She isn't a mistress to be toted at his arm, even in the weeks business demands them to walk stride-for-stride: their city's Eye and Teeth, dagger and shield, blood-peppered and glistening and crowds carved in their wake.

Other men may have tried. Worn her strength off the crooks of their elbows, like a weapon flashed in the face of more foolish eyes. Seen her companionship as a blessed respite from it all, and let their treatments of her unfold into gauzier territories.

She'd snap their wrists, before they even dared. 

There's nothing she so despises as pampering. Kindreds forbid any man get in her way, try to sweeten her up like some solstice water-pig, and dream of walking free with his head still attached.

As such, his versions come passively.

On a given day, it's in the form of extra coin—an unspoken gratitude for the disposals she ensures, the weaklings she delegates, the wreckage she suffers by the day under the brat he hasn't yet the nerve to call his own.

(His ward, his foundling, the youngest in his care—those titles, he throws about freely. Never daughter.)

She may have tried to pick through the layers of that—unravel the threads of his insistence on keeping all things at arm's length, even the girl he himself had carried back from the fires—had housed and clothed and armed and cared for, of his own will—if the sentiment, strangely, didn't seem to resonate. 

The little sprite can't string together any paternal words, in his company. Not Father, not Dad—not even Sir, as Sevika's own cracked cattleprod of a sire had insisted upon. But she gravitates to him, like a moth to a flame. Stays sewn at his hip, now, more days that not—even more than Sevika, herself.

A part of her will not chew on the threat that sits in that. In the reality of a child placed above her, in the seat of his succession. 

But the threat is there—and Silco knows it. 

He observes, as equally as he is observed by her.

The coin and speciality shipments and allowances for more evenings than she needs run deeper than gratitudes—a sign that he's routed every inch of her doubts, before she's even let herself crack open the lid of them; that he will squash them where they lay, before they grow four limbs and crawl.

The rarest of his privileges is a meal. 

Some nights, they're given in white-tableclothed businesses of his own, surrounded by up-and-coming Zaunite work-classes and dinners expensive enough to strip common-folk of their month's salary. Others, in the Drop's back kitchen, bowed about the heads of a hand-selected few.

The old pub had been a headquarters, before—and had since blossomed beneath his hand, to become one, again. History bled through the cracks in the walls: a place surrounded by myth. Revolutionaries had plotted war and reparation for two decades, in the Drop's mildewing cellars—revolutionaries and unionists and a Hound and a Bloodshark, freeing laborers and leading surges of protests, taking their city by the horns.

Times had changed. 

The Hound was dead, now; the Shark still living—standing at the head of his table, surrounded by the knights of his keep, in a long sweep of black and red and a cigarette at his fingers: pouring out short-glasses of whisky and gin and stories few could claim the privilege to hear.

Tonight, though, the meal isn't around the war table. 

They sit in one of their six main Sumpside fronts: a blue-walled, low-lit monstrosity of posters and portraits, clustered around a catacomb of varnish. It's the newest of his ventures. Among other social frivolities, the Siren boasts smuggled cross-river fare and live folk-players, and deals backhanded trades of shimmer from the storerooms. 

On a better day, Sevika may have been more mindful of the gesture—may have found herself more appreciative of the steaming plate slid before her—if that blue-headed spitfire wasn't ticking the silence to a metallurgy seminar.

At his side, Jinx sits in a self-sewn patchwork of purples and blacks: finger-sheared gloves and striped stockings and hacked off assortments of fabric, all cross-hatched together in bright thread. A fork jitters in her knobby fingers, the skin stained with soot. She prods at her food, like it's waiting to bite back at her.

Those storm-blue eyes leap across the table, catch Sevika's own, and glare. In tandem, the two of them make an educated choice to look elsewhere.

A glass of scotch lazes between long fingers.

Half-mindedly, Sevika follows the sharp cut of his ice as it clatters around the crystal. He's slouched back in his seat, one arm hooked over the cushion's spine. He favors corner booths like this one: clear vantage points across his constituents, tucked away from prying eyes. 

Subconsciously or not, she mirrors him. Plucks up her pint by the rim and swigs it. Sees the spearhead of his conversation coming, before it's thrown. 

"Your meeting with Ilanna." Order, more than inquiry.

Sevika scowls. "As we expected." The young heiress had made a mess of her evening, in no small part for her under-table dealings with Finn. They'd had an eye on her, for weeks—waiting, inevitably, for the ball to drop. "Has the worm wrapped around her little finger."

His eyes lift. Teal skewing blue, in the room's light: a scepter forged in jade and moonstone. The lamps play a trick on the ink-smear of his dead iris, as though the thing was still living—golden, instead of bloody tones. 

Silco sips down his liquor, clean as water. Mulls over the glass, "And what do you make of her?"

Sevika chews on that. Waits for him to reorient on her. He's wandering, again—plotting an unhurried assessment of the movement that unspools around the room. The lamplight cuts his profile to a hawkish point: turns the flick of his eye feline.

"She's like every damned heiress I've seen," she answers him. "Used to getting things at her beck and call." At his shoulder, the little runt fidgets with her plate. Sevika pulls her eyes away from her: cocks her brows at him, instead. "What do you?"

The scarred edge of his mouth thins. His breath portends a sermon.

"She's a smart little fool." He's fixed on the reflection that circles his liquor. The lowball finds an unhurried lay upon the varnish, tipped corner-to-corner: crystal prisming blue-gold light. "She knows what she wants—and what to play, to get it. I'll give her that."

Ire, in that admission.

For a man housed on the highest rung of their city's polluted circles, it puzzles her. 

She would have assumed that he, like most of the power-hungered blights she had spent her youth guarding, would drain their streets of every pretty, handsome thing in reach: would claim it all, devour it, with a vile entitlement. 

For reasons she does not understand, he won't.

#arcane #arcane fanfic #fic excerpt #silco arcane #sevika arcane #jinx arcane #silco & sevika #still thinking about these two #they're just #*shakes fist* #augh #writing #both sides of the moon

[itsybitsyromanoffff]

Do you think that I have forgotten about you?

#reddie #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #richie x eddie #richie tozier x eddie kaspbrak #it 2017 #it chapter 2 #it chapter ii #it chapter two #it 2019 #it 2 #reddie edit #clown movie #it stephen king #about you #the 1975 #fanedit #still thinking about these two #need a lobotomy #bill hader #james ransone #for the clown girlies who are still here

[aredhels]

help me kill my time 'cause i'll never be fine

Rating: Mature Characters: Original Elias Bouchard, Michael Shelley Relationship: Original Elias Bouchard/Michael Shelley Warnings: Implied/Referenced Drug Use Word Count: 3341 Summary: The thing is, michael is unbearably lonely and something tells him that Elias might be, too.

Read on AO3

#greetings i wrote tma fic again #still thinking about these two #magnuspod #tma fanfic #elimichael #mine #*fic #*tma

[chessere]

Phantom of the past.

I like serizawa and yamanami as a combination a lot actually. The thought that yamanamisan took part in serizawa's assassination to build the shinsengumi with kondo, but in the end he died because of the shinsengumi he helped build... The irony is *chef's kiss*

Now. About me personally. Half the reason i logged back into my tumblr is to post historical rpf stuff. But your boy learned about 創作新選組 and started a new twt account for historical rpf specifically creative shinsengumi? So rn I'm juggling 4 main accounts in 3 different languages that I don't have time for any other sites i plan to use jjfjjfjdNCJSJFJ

#yamanami keisuke #serizawa kamo #shinsengumi #historical rpf #kinda #still thinking about these two #serizawasan is supposed to look bigger my artstyle just doesn't allow me to manifest it

[astearisms]

catalysts, protectors

#man those episodes #so many things put into perspective #like Simon’s role as a protector and his kindness and empathy and compassion and existence being the catalyst for the rest of ooo to #flourish #and Betty is a protector of Simon #I wonder if the last two episodes will explore more of her character? there’s so much to be explored about her giving so much of herself #to Simon but not thinking about what she wants for herself #do we get to explore her feelings or see her at all? will she have changed or learned to let go #I think there will be some sort of closure for the both of them #but at what cost #I am still crying over that scene with Simon’s memory of Betty and their song #my art #fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #simon petrikov #betty grof #petrigrof #golbetty

[kithj]

good games i've played on itchio lately:

please tell me you love me - chat with your guild members for the last time before the game's servers are shut down

GIRLKILLER (covet) - there is a girl who looks like you, and today you're going to kill her

cover me in leaves - stuck in your small hometown, you get your first tattoo. and then a few more, and more, and more

don't rock the boat - play through the different perspectives of a women's crew team as they are stalked by something in the water

GUTLESS - you are the captain of a deep sea vessel. your mission doesn't go well

so, about last night... - you wake up sick and weirdly hungry after hooking up with someone at a party. you spend the next night trying to find her.

close the window, my love - short bitsy poem about closing the window. sound on! this creator has a lot of short bitsy works i recommend.

there is a beautiful star - just a short, cute side scroller. lots of short, lighthearted games from them, definitely recommend for a mood booster.

#these are all p short except for so about last night gutless and rock the boat #still not super long tho #these are all on my itch page too but whatever lmfao #also cringe i feel so awkward writing descriptions but i dont really have a lot to say personally #except. Good Game 👍 #also sorry recommending gutless a second time sue me #i think girlkiller is my favorite atm... i like the ambiguity in that one and two different endings #games

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

#selfie bee #good evening friends!! how are you doing! C: #I'm very very sleepy I got a new ikea office chair and I build it all myself #I think it went okay! I don't think I pulled the back screw tight enough and now the back is a bit loose #I can probably fix it but I can also ignore it for the next 18 years #thats how long the old chair held up!! in germany it could now drink vodka and drive a car!! #not at the same time that is illegal! not at the same time!! (❁´▽`❁)*✲ﾟ* #but the day is not over yet my uncle asked me for a big art quest and I do not want to disappoint #he wants a muppet tattoo and asked me to draw it #my uncle has started to get tattoos a few months ago #as far as I know he has now gotten 3 note clefs 3 stars a flower and multiple birds #he also started getting piercings but so far I managed not to know exactly where #I think tattoos are super cool (´｡･v･｡｀) I wish I had a good idea for a tattoo but the last time I was very sure about getting a tattoo #it was heath ledgers face as the joker #at that point I was 12 and would not see the actual movie for two more years #a muppet tattoo is a way better idea!! he asked for the count van count! that is also one of my top 3 muppets ₍՞◌′ᵕ‵ू◌₎♡ #I always thought I knew a lot about muppet lore but since I started looking up muppet pictures I think there are still a lot of secrets #can the muppets from the Sesame Street actually leave the Sesame Street? #I think Kermit is both on the Muppet Show and on Sesame Street but he is also like the boss muppet #he might have special abilities #I hope you're having a good day friends!! C: #I think I'll post a Sherlock comic later this week #miss you!! ♥♥♥

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

#tloz #a link to the past #zelda #link #my art #I was happy with that first one but for some reason decided it still needed a companion piece so I spent way too long on that second one... #I don't think there was any time during the progress where I was happy with it but hfduhdfu at least I got to Attempt drawing moss hell yea #I also at some point sat in Pyu's art stream and said I enjoy drawing legs As I was being murdered by the infamously impossibe (imo) squat. #it's ok I had fun !! but I need to learn how to let doodles be doodles or I'll never finish stuff at this rate dfsuhfd #if everything in my tloz tag looks like it was drawn by different people uuuh 2023 was art crisis year ngl...... #I'm falling back into my old ways rn though #anyway I think about these two a lot I think they're both stone faced and awkward ppl in different ways but they try rly hard to be friends #like I like to think it starts out so incredibly awkward and a bit sad bc they keep stepping over each other's toes accidentally the harder #they try but idk they find comfy middle ground idk in my brain they have a very interesting friendship I wanna get around to drawing it #in a proper way that might make sense.... #if I don't write 200 tags I will die maybe it's bc I grew up on dA or smth #and yes I know how to find 1 (one) type of mushroom /I/ am not mushroom girl unfortunately smh

[clouvu]

Nothing in the world belongs to me But my love, mine, all mine

#genshin impact #arlecchino #peruere #clervie #ouhhhhhhhh im never gonna be able to emotionally recover from watching that animated short #ever since it came out a couple days ago just thinking of these two makes me feel like my heart is physically being ripped in half #i cant stop thinking about how Clervie was the only person in Arlecchino's life that she truly loved #like dont get me wrong Arlecchino loves her children in her own detached-fucked up way as much as any person with her amount of trauma can #but Clervie meant so much to her that even just her presence alone kept Arle's curse at bay #and it seems that no one other than Clervie herself has ever been able to break this unemotional/detached wall that Arle has put up #and maybe no one else ever will #DONT GET ME WRONG I still fw arle x other female harbingers like that shit is still peak #but oh my god the idea that arle never moved on after clervie's death and will never love anyone the way she loved her makes me want to SOB

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 5: Flip Slip.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 4.5)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #mdzs au #Yungmang Jiang Training Arc AU #lan wangji #wei wuxian #digital art #Trying out some digital techniques to see if I can get closer to feel/style of my traditional comics. #So far the biggest difference is *colouring* Digital colouring feels...not good. I have complained about this before and I'll complain agai #Before we get into the sad stuff with Yungmeng Jiang in the PD-MDZS comics lets have some lighthearted fun! #Remember that if anything bad happens to these Jiang disciples in the canon comic - they are happy in this AU B'*) #I think one of the funniest things about the teenxian dynamic is how WWX accidently finds things that get LWJ to feel flustered. #My guy wwx goes 'I'm going to lightly bully/tease this nerd 'cause his reactions are funny.' and LWJ goes “My god. He's everything to me.” #Part two of the fun part of this dynamic is that LWJ is ever so lightly self aware enough to LOATHE THIS CRUSH. #Hence why I have been marinating on this 'Accidental Lan headband miscommunication' concept. #This is how LWJ assumes that WWX knows what the band means in this AU. This will be relevant later. #And YES! I am still going to be making comics for this AU. I have so many ideas I simply can't hold onto forever.

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

forever obsessed with dynamics between vampires, specifically that of a maker and fledgling, as a way to explore abuse. the creation of a vampire itself can so easily be a literalization of the lasting impacts of trauma and also much more simply the ways a perpetrator might shape their victim’s very identity. the extremes of isolation in the way that the new vampire, in most narratives, must cut all ties to their mortal life, or else go through an elaborate charade to maintain the facade of humanity, while forever still being removed from it. and the sheer dependence and vulnerability of being in an entirely new state of being, wholly uncertain of what it entails, and relying on another person to define… everything.

#or just the moral dilemmas #rewatching amc interview is kind of making me insane #that moment in episode two when louis is looking for a sort of assurance in the fact that lestat may actually have some good in him #look at how he cares about music look at the simple wondrous things that can bring him joy #and then the immediate dread when the opera performance turns out to be imperfect because he knows how lestat will react to *that* #I think there’s also something really interesting in the highlighting of lestat upbraids the less skilled singer before killing him #(slowly) #but also I will wait to watch more before I articulate my thoughts #vampires #interview with the vampire #amc interview with the vampire #i ramble sometimes #I do still find the lestat and claudia film and novel dynamic by far the most compelling for how she tries to usurp him but almost to be him #but I’m enjoying this #I’m very curious if I will like show claudia more on rewatch #the movie always resonated most with me (sue me lol) because there seemed to be more simultaneous fondness and attachment even at the end

[peakvincent]

new game is to type one through ten in your tags and see what comes up. i think my favorite of mine is ‘my uncle told us he spent seven and a half hours in a sensory deprivation tank once’ but ‘gideon the ninth motherfucker’ is a close second

#one is that bad laptops can still handle custom content #two stupid old men who i lovehate :( #goddamn it i wish the three funniest women alive would tell me what i just saw #the f in rpf stands for fourth wall #ten pounds of trauma in a five pound bag #me and alice will both read it and i think that brings you up to like six!!! #my uncle told us he spent seven and a half hours in a sensory deprivation tank once #goal was one book per store and we ended up with six stores and eight books which actually i think is fine #gideon the ninth motherfucker #thinking about the ten inexplicable minutes where jay and i were very in on brandon saad/roberto luongo #*

[wasyago]

the brainrot won

#GUY S i know i haven't posted anything in a while and thats because im working on a big cool project that i really want to finish without- #distractions. but uh. as you can see. ive been distracted 😔. still working on it tho!!!! and im very happy with it turns out its just- #super time and energy consuming so ive tried to limit my intake of other media to not make myself want to draw other stuff #i also haven't read the last two (two already?????) chapters of RnS and im very sad about it and i want to read it but you know that if i- #read it ill want to make fanart and then ill never finish my project :( #SO. sorrey for the lack of art itll be coming when im free to draw!!!!!!! #but also. yes ive watched new life because i dont want to go insane with nothing but this project on my mind and umm. had to take a little- #break to do a couple designs for fun... and to switch it up a bit because for real im going insane i think #ALSO. friend got me into zelda botw and i haven't played a whole lot yet (because project) but ive tried to take some inspiration for- #designs from there. at least for joel and scott. everyone else not so much... #WELL ANYWAYS this is getting long. i should really stop rambling in the tags and just make separate posts for all this but i dont want to #umm. tags. #new life smp #smallishbeans #mythical sausage #geminitay #pearlescentmoon #smajor1995 #inthelittlewood #my art #sketch

[latenightwestern]

“irreplaceable”

the one word where morty figured out this wasn’t really rick.

and no wonder morty believes rick could just up and replace him any day. because there’s infinite versions of him, after all. because there’s infinite other things that are better than him. because, for the longest time, every other day, rick kept on telling him how replaceable he is.

no wonder he was scared that hug wouldn't have been real.

but, truth is, rick would’ve jumped after him (if he had thought morty was in real danger).

truth is, rick would have performed in front of a crowd for him.

truth is, rick would anything, just about anything, for him. he would travel the longest distances just to get him back. he would spoil him with gadgets and gifts. he would forgo the chance to see his wife again just so he could spend the rest of the evening with him.

truth is, morty was wrong.

#rick and morty #morty smith #rick sanchez #fear no mort #words #CAN YOU TELL IM STILL NOT OVER THIS #i dont even know if this has a point or anything #but i just.. im just not okay #iiiiiiii dont know aaaaaaaaaaugh #i couldnt sleep last night just thinking about this episode #my brain is the private property of these two

[spacecolonie]

experiments + fake cover version 💉

(print)

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #idw sonic #surge the tenrec #kitsunami the fox #it took me almost TWO YEARS!!! to finish this!!! i finally caved and called it finished/i did my best lmao #still thinking about imposter syndrome