#the love of our mortality

[aroaceleovaldez]

i still think a lot about how technically, it's implied Anubis and Walt started dating each other before they asked out Sadie, and if Sadie had said she wasn't interested they would have gone "Entirely fair have a nice day" and proceed to just go continue to date each other.

Cause like, that was the entire thing. They decided that themselves. That things would work best if they were together (as in both physically sharing a body and also relationship-wise). The "asking Sadie about it" part was secondary. If she had said no, they would have stayed together, because among other things Walt would kind of die if they didn't. Walt and Anubis are technically the first gay couple in the Riordanverse. AND they're in a polyamorous relationship with Sadie. Why does no one talk about them ever.

#tkc #the kane chronicles #riordanverse #walt stone #anubis tkc #sadie kane #saltnubis #< great ship name btw #and for anyone who says ''i dont think Rick intended that'' mind you this book was released like #six months before HoH came out (and. subsequently also. Nico.) #like. Rick was not ignorant of queer stuff at that time. he was actively writing it into HoO/HoH while writing both simultaneously #if Sadie had said no they wouldn't have just gone ''okay Sadie pick one of us and the other will cease to exist on the mortal plane'' #they would have gone ''okay well good luck we have a coffee date scheduled so we're gonna go do that'' #saltnubis is still probably the most entertaining solution to a love triangle in middle grade media i have ever encountered #even some YA media. just ''yeah so we solved both our major problems by dating but like. we know you like both of us sooooo...?'' #also hilarious that meanwhile Carter's romance arc is ''so turns out my first girlfriend was a clone made of pottery'' #''and the actual girl has never met me and this is kinda awkward''

[ari-dark-raiden-simp]

I hate fake a** bit**** the most when we talk about Raiden 🙄✋😒

#dark raiden #raiden #mortal kombat #mk #mk1 #I don't trust people who suddenly love character because they change him #and then I see “finally sexy Raiden” or some crap #some people will dislike me for this but oh well #its internet we can have our own opinions

[smile-files]

fun fact: "cherub" likely didn't originally describe a little angel baby -- it comes from the hebrew word "keruv" which, in jewish mythology (according to my rabbi mom, anyway), is much more like a sphinx: an angel with the front half of a lion, the back half of a bull, the face of a human, and wings!

so here is my doodley little cherub creature... with a lamb in back instead of a bull! and with rosy cheeks and a halo too, to be like modern depictions of cherubim for fun. my mom just recently learned what a furry is and said if i were an animal i'd be a cherub (mainly because of my mane-like golden hair)... she might be right!

#dandy's doodles #it is so hard to draw a mane you have no idea!! augh!!! #anyway i love love love my sweet dragon but i'm being indecisive...! #and at least for a cherub i can justify it existing in our world. cuz i'm jewish and i can believe in angels if i so choose #i think angels wouldn't look like anything we can comprehend so they'd just approximate themselves with earthly parts for our mortal eyes #hence chimera sorts of things :) cool beasts #i don't know i tried looking around online for the kind of sphinxy cherub my mom was describing but i didn't find too much #a little bit on wikipedia i guess. nobody's quite sure what cherubim look like but this is what my mom thinks... and i like it!!! #oh and she says seraphim are winged serpents... so dragons! dragons!! dragons!!!

[shiresome]

I think Mavado should win Worst Boss Award he's earned it 💔

#IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW #and if you know. i love you #tf2 mention in the year of our lord #if i dont like his mk12 design ill cry for the rest of my life by the way #dont take his style (derogatory) #mortal kombat #mk #mavado #red dragon #hsu hao #fanart #shire art

[quickhacked]

"The outer reaches of space remain unexplored by humankind to this day, but its greed is relentless. We grasp and yearn and hunger for knowledge— answers to questions we cry out into the endless void expecting to understand, expecting the stars to respond. The stars will not, but one day something else will— and we will not like what it has to say." — Rome Solomon, Beyond the Exosphere (1965)

taglist (opt in/out): @shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart, @vvanessaives, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman, @celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister, @killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree

#obscura #edit:rome #nuclearocs #nuclearedits #ok so. ok hi. red and i made a new universe hi. sorry. morris quincy victor and eleanor belong to them the rest belong to meee :3 #the pictures i used are basically the patron saints of their occupation / line of work! so that's not what they look like #anyway it's a mix of paranormal stuff + lovecraftian horror + sort of zombies :^) #they're like. the domains of lucifer (demons) behemoth (zombies) and leviathan (the eldritch horrors that happen in space and oceans) #who are like. the three evils that torment the mortal realm #it's all in a historical setting kind of parallel to our world? so a bunch of historic events are the same but it's like #a little bit more advanced with technology but at the same time it's not. it's Just A Little Different y'know #rome's sister went to space for a mission and just straight up went missing which prompts him to become an astronomer #and he's the first one to start speculating the existence of leviathan as eldritch god #morris is a technician at the academy who has an angel stuck in his computer #eve is a nun and herbalist who witnesses the influence of behemoth firsthand through some sick travelers #that she and the other nuns of her convent take care of #anatoly and quincy are both from different space missions who end up as the only survivors who are not basically a plant #the other two survivors have secretly been replaced with some sort of parasites. annihilation style if you've seen that movie #eleanor is a demonologist and works together with her brother victor who's her cameraman #clarence is a blind psychic who lost her sight because of an angel trying to warn her and in return got her psychic abilities #and lazarus is one of the two most famous demonologists in the world but his wife (the other one) passed away #so now he's alone and since he's not from an upper class family like his wife was he's not all that loved as she was #there's a lot going on but it's SO fucking fun to work on so far. feel free to send any asks i would love to explain more :^) #if you've made it this far also hi i love you. kiss for you

[calviyv]

KFC clown x McDonald's clown

#my girlfriend and i made these 2 months ago (we fucking love this joke) #we were mistyping their names and laughing our asses off then she came up with kfc and i was like mcdonald's??? #shout out #johnshi #kfdonald #johnny cage #kenshi takahashi #mortal kombat 1 #mortal kombat

[puppetmaster13u]

Even More Meat Marionette Au

But a lil drabble <3 Because my ADHD snatched this au and isn't letting go.

  There were tunnels under Gotham. 

   Everyone knew about them, even if they were rarely spoken of. There were tales about them, some whispered in hushed voices from mother to child, others creeping across withered pages stained with age. Stories of creatures, of living shadows, of men going mad, wailing about the things beneath. 

   No one went into the tunnels. 

  Not purposely at least. 

   For one Bruce Wayne, he had fallen the first time- slipped into a well after a night of rain and into those dark caves with stone as black as night and just as stained with blood as the rest of the city. 

   No one had gone down for a long time, and no one should have gone down for longer still, but the rain had made the crumbling stones slick, the child reaching just a hint too far, and so down he went, nails scrabbling against unyielding rock and blood dripping from soft skin. 

   The child did not scream, even if his terror was sweet in the air as his blood mixed with the water soaking his clothes. He did not stay, just like the others before him, but the caves remembered the sweetness of the fear he brought. 

   No one went into the tunnels, not anymore. 

   Yet the child did. 

   Oh he wasn’t a child anymore, not to humans, but to the ancient caves, he was still but an infant. He’d eventually leave, and they’d still be there. They had been there long before, and they’d be long after even when the city turned to dust in the sands of time. 

   And yet… 

  And yet. 

   Yet he kept returning, night after night and day after day, running a hand along the stone that should have chilled him to the bone. His fear was still ever so sweet in the air, even if it was lessening over the time. It was… curious. 

   There was still the scent of fear, of terror coming from the human, but it also wasn’t. It was coming from him, but it wasn’t his own fear. 

   The emotion clung to him, but it wasn’t his. It was others’ fear, others’ fear he was bringing down to the cavernous tunnels. Others’ fear he was feeding It, unknowing or not. A gift, a meal, something for It and It alone. 

   It was only polite to return the favor, to gift the little human something to fight and terrify. As much as the spilled blood pleased It, the tunnels understood that it would be far better for Its little human to stay healthy, to be able to bring blood not his own. 

   The city was always full of corpses and the tunnels stretched far longer than humans realized after all, It could reach any who fell. Purposeful deaths, accidental, it made no difference to the bloodstained stone beneath. 

   It would call to Its little human soon enough, Its gift was nearly complete after all. Something to fly without the creaking metal or suits of wires. Something new, something It hadn’t formed before. 

   After all, what use would It have for a living body? What use did flesh and stone need to move? It had been here for a long time, and It would be here longer still, but perhaps, perhaps just this once another would last past the crumbling of life and bones turning to dust. 

   A gift, from the tunnels to him. 

   For one Bruce Wayne, who had returned to them with sacrifices of flesh and blood and fear each night. For one child who had fallen and returned to the depths of the tunnels, for one child that was Its.

This is a combo of my Au & @phoenixcatch7's and you need to check out their Possessed Doll Au because it's amazing <3<3

#writing wip #meat marionette au #batman au #batman #bruce wayne #lovecraftian vibes #The tunnels under Gotham: He's just our funny lil guy <3 #Gothamites: *Screaming crying vomiting* #The tunnels: We love him <3 #Bruce: *Crying & clinging to his exposure therapy bat plush* #The tunnels: he's such an adorable lil mortal boi <3 #He's baby to them even if they're distinctly not human in their thinking #Someone turned up the heat in the house and my brain is melting or else I'd be writing from bruce's pov #about when he first gets his meat puppet body & literally wakes up in it #but it's like 80 degrees because my mom has a medical condition that is the opposite of me easily overheating :/ #Anyway have a drabble and I hope yall like it #Writing wip #wip #drabble #gotham #this is like not edited at all so it might not be clear lol

[chucktaylorupset]

its been a million years.  percy has gone from young millenial to squarely gen z.  i think that while he’s up on that mountain demanding the gods pay their fucking child support, he should tell hera at the top of his sixteen year old pipsqueak lungs that polyamory is a thing now and she doesn’t have to define her marriage the traditional way if she doesn’t want to.  she’s the goddess of all marriages!  that includes these modern ones too!!

hera is like zeus would you agree to an open relationship zeus is like SOLD i have been trying to do this for years, completely neglects to read the fine print that this goes two ways before signing on the dotted line for this deal with the prada wearing devil because fundamentally, zeus is an asshole

hera starts hooking up with committed married couples and having SUPREMELY powerful demigod children.  they are all her favorites and she lavishes them with powers and gifts and attention.  she has, unlike the other gods, no millenia of experience with mortal children to temper her reaction, and so this whole move honestly causes more problems than not.

meanwhile hades and persephone; poeseidon and amphirite; dionysus and ariadne; all of them have been trying to talk to hera about this thing for DECADES and then perseus fucking protagonist powers jackson comes in and turns a quarter of a century into wasted work.

#my post #pjo #it's very key that zeus is big butthurt about this #and that most of the olympians are ethically nonmonogamous thanks to some great work done by either aphrodite or eros #back at the end of the 1900s #being a child of hera is extremely weird because you're not prepared for it like most single parents of demigods are #also most of heras partners come out okay but ALL of them are 'blessed' to never be divorced which uh #can have some variability in terms of results #gods are complicated kids #a lot of hera demigods come up with parents who have very healthy relationships and pass on those emotional intelligence skills! #and then they start coming into their powers and suddenly they inherit a girlboss pta mom who will speak to the manager #and WILL support them taking over the world cause it's what they deserve. if that's what they want <3 #most of them are emotionally healthy enough that they don't even Want to take over the world but uh. they sure are offered that as option #if they want to #hera kids have the Oposite problem of a lot of demigods who have gods practiced in loving mortal kids #they're like i cannot stress how much we Do Not Have To Prove Ourselves to her #we have to be very careful about wanting things she will just handle them to us also #once we get married we can't divorce she would either kill us or it would Be A Thing for the rest of our lives #it's... very stressful to be a child of hera #they mostly try to befriend the chill party kids because they need to catch some Chill

[vryivs]

I always forget that monarchists exist and then I see someone with the username duchessofmyheartforever or williamisababe posting about how it's mean to giggle at an ultrarich economic leech experiencing just a fraction of struggle and inconvenience (because lets be honest, he probably wont kick the bucket—his doctors are paid to keep his corpse animated long after it ceases to be humane)

#iv.txt #uk politics #ntm crying to tumblr staff about it like bestie they do not fucking care #blah blah 'its not funny to joke about cancer what if it was your family member' #like literally everyone is affected by cancer either their own or a loved ones #i dont have to imagine ive already lost two family members #i promise you. we are not joking about cancer. we are joking about the parasite in chief using our tax money #to pay for private top class healthcare while his subjects #the taxpayers that fund his lifestyle #die of the same thing due to nhs strikes because instead of paying doctors humane wages their money goes to maintaining an archaic #and outdated #system that only serves to uphold a status quo long outgrown #but sure. complain to tumblr staff #its not a laughter of glee its a cold and mirthless 'ha' #see how at the end of the day even you are mortal. how does it feel to fear for your life? how does it feel to know hundreds of thousands #of your citizens live fearing for their lives every day because of the economic crisis you and your government have created

[daily-clace]

I noticed that a few of you haven't read the short Clace stories, so I’m leaving some links here:

A Long Conversation (Takes place at the end of Lady Midnight)

Our Waking Souls (Takes place during Lord of Shadows)

A Love that Never Tires (Takes place at the end of​ Queen of Air and Darkness)

Also this one short story about the TMI gang celebrating Simon’s graduation from the Shadowhunter Academy:

Short extra TMI gang story (Takes place a few weeks after the end of Tales from The Shadowhunter Academy)

And some Extra Clace Scenes that take place during TMI (Most of these come at the end of the new editions of TMI, but I decided to put some links to them as well in case any of you haven't read them. I tried to use only links from tumblr but I couldn't find any for some of the extras):

Deleted Prologue of City of Bones (This was the original prologue for City of Bones from Jace’s POV)

When Midnight Comes (Jace's POV of his first kiss with Clary in City of Bones)

Because It Is Bitter (The Seelie Court​ kiss scene during City of Ashes from Jace’s point of view)

Wayland Manor Scene, Extended Version (Original, longer version of the Clace “manor house” scene from City of Glass, chapter 9. It was toned down for the published version of the book)

Jace’s PoV Manor Scene (During City of Glass)

Jace’s letter to Clary from City of Glass (The one he left her with the Morgenstern ring)

The Act of Falling (The alley Clace scene during City of Fallen Angels from Jace’s Pov)

Dirty Sexy Club Scene (The Jace and Clary club scene during City of Lost Souls before it was toned down)

Dirty Edom Cave Scene (Jace and Clary cave scene from City of Heavenly Fire before it was edited down)

Deleted Scene (Jace and Clary, from City of Lost Souls)

Rewritten/Deleted scene (Jace and Clary, from City of Lost Souls)

Deleted Scene from CoHF (The comic Cassandra Jean drew for some editions of City of Heavenly Fire. Magnus sends Emma, Julian and the Blackthorns back through a Portal to Los Angeles. Jace and Clary come to say goodbye.)

Cassie’s News Letter (New TMI gang content from Cassie’s mail, it’s a Memorandum from The New York Institute)

And just a link to a bunch of extra TMI scenes (Including “Awake” the scene where Jace and Clary meet for the first time, written from Jace's POV. This link also includes some of the extra scenes listed above but you'll have to scroll down to find them)

Art by @cassandrajp 🌻

#clace short stories #dailyclace #clace quotes #clace #jace herondale #clary fairchild #clary fray #jace lightwood #jace lightwood herondale #jace wayland #the mortal instruments #tmi #the dark artifices #tda #the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc #tales from the shadowhunter academy #shadowhunters #cazadores de sombras #cassandra clare #clary and jace #jace and clary #tmi gang #a love that never tires #a long conversation #our waking souls #vierssherondale

[aroaceleovaldez]

doodle page from a couple months ago of Nico having way too many immortal friends

also yes i did just use Nyx’s Hades design. it’s a good design.

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #let's see if i can't not crosstag while explaining this woo #okay so top l > r: my hc about Nico in Tartarus for the longest time (and tbh still is) #was that the like Singular Break he got down there was taking a nap in the Palace of Night #and that N and Achlys just think he's Neat. they didnt really help him but they didnt hurt him either #more of just let him crash on the sofa #i refuse anything about pjo's version of N. reject your canon and substitute my own #anyways then his parents then Hest #< feels weird shortening her name but yknow. struggling not to crosstag here #then Cupid (i dont think i have to worry about crosstagging there) cause i like the hc that Nico is one of his fav mortals #and they both DO chill out with each other eventually. or are at least chill sometimes #cause it's Nico literally grappling with the literal physical manifestation of the concept of romantic love #so once he sorts that out theyre chill. if nico has a bad romance day he shows up like ''bitch lets get u some ice cream'' #then Demet Arte and. well he's labeled. #i think the dynamic of Nico doing yardwork for Demet funny. that's his. Grandma. Aunt. Grandaunt. Dont think about it too hard #then Arte just thinks of him as her roaming emo little brother (cause of Bianca) - hes an honorary brother of the Hunt #all the Hunters just accept ''that's our little bro he has very mixed feelings about us though'' #and then. handshake same aesthetic. i like the hcs that Nico was an Eye for him for awhile before Walt ergo the fashion sense #my art

[itslucyhenley]

i just can’t help but be tickled to death by the fact that we’ve made it through episode 7 of this season and tedtrent is still alive. it’s being allowed to live on and i fucking absolutely LOVE that. how cool.

#trent crimm #ted lasso #i mean if it actually happens i will cease to exist on this mortal plane but yeah #love our chats #tedependent #ted x trent

[xoxoannimuxoxo]

At this point, Bi Han could post Kuai Liang's and Tomas' social security numbers all over Earthrealm and some of you Bi Han fans would still defend Bi Han and argue that Kuai Liang and Tomas are in the wrong for being mad that he leaked their social security numbers.

#mortal kombat #kuai liang: Brother why am I and Tomas seeing charges on our credit cards from this "Applebees- #bi han: THAT DOESN'T CONCERN YOU DON'T NETTLE YOUR GRANDMASTER WITH MEANINGLESS QUESTIONS!!! #still love him even though this whole bi han defense squad is driving me nuts #bi han #kuai liang #tomas vrbada

[xiaohuayaos]

Honestly the reason the "love triangle" in lbfad works so well for me is easily because it's not completely lazy?

So many love triangles in romances are very clear cut and you can typically tell who is going to "win". Usually one pairing is written with far more care than the other, and for sure we get that with Dongfang Qingcang and Xiao Lanhua. They get the meat of the story, but regardless Changheng and Xiao Lanhua do have a really nice chemistry. When you watch them together you can easily see the alternate universe where this is a story about /their love/ There's just this genuine sweetness that aches from their early scenes together that makes it a little bit painful to watch- like I love.... the love between The Fairy and The Devil, I do. They have such great chemistry and they're so, so fun together-The difference of this cold and dark and brooding entity and the little flower spirit that charmed him is everything I could ask. It was never a question that I wanted to see them together in the end but there was still moments with Changheng that just made me go Oh, maybe it really will be him and her in the end...

then of course it doesnt happen. And I'm so happy to see my favourite duo together in the end, because they are just so good together, but its a little sad, too. I don't want Changheng to sit around with his heartbroken, I feel kind of terrible for him... and god if that isn't a better love triangle than I ever anticipated.

#Honestly Same with Danyin tbh #Like they sold the unrequited love thing so well. You just feel for her even though you know she's not the one. #The Changheng stuff fell off after the mortal arc a bit but those first 20 somthin eps really did make it so good #With lazier love triangles I often think they should have bought conflict in from something else #But with this there was moments I was like oh no... are they gonna end up together? Oh no maybe I want them too? Wait no I don't knowwwww #Like its just juicier when it seems like it could happen yk #lord changheng #xiao lanhua #love between fairy and devil #Also having Xiao Run and our devil mate become actual friends????? Brillianttttttt #Making then work together and have some kinda respect? Ough it was great!!

[creeperthescamp]

for as big as the oblivion crisis was, it's super weird that Skyrim doesn't even touch it beyond a few dialogue mentions :/ like it was a pretty fuckin violent tamriel-wide event, it's gotta have some more far reaching consequences over generations of people than just 'well that's the end of the third era'

having just finished the oblivion main quest, npcs talk of celebrating dagons defeat with new songs and broken oblivion gates dot the landscape. martins dragon statue serves as a somber reminder of all the friends you had that are now dead

in skyrim where are those songs? the oblivion gates? the graves? martin? the written and oral histories of the crisis itself and the aftermath? for a province known for its bardic traditions there's nothing about any historical events newer than 'ancient as shit' and it's really quite disappointing playing oblivion and knowing that none of it actually matters

i could understand bethesda wanting to distance themselves from the cheerful tone and style of oblivion in order to be able to appeal to GoT fans and in line with the popular gritty and '''''realistic''''' style of early 2010s media, but like. honestly. marketing is stupid af and not sticking with the Basic Lore of Literally The Previous Game's Main Quest really shows a lack of imagination and backbone on the writer's part. Like you want gritty and dark? There's an apocalyptic event right there and you could write about how people have been dealing with it!

man don't even get me started on the whole 'mages guild broke up cos people thought they were involved with the oblivion crisis' thing. common oblivion npcs literally talk about mythic dawn and knew what was going on. fucking come on man

och just a painful reminder that these games could be so good if they were actually like. good

#martin posts #tes #skyrim #tes oblivion #it just. makes no sense!! who the hell wrote and greenlit this shit? #also i really appreciated the attempts in beyond skyrim: bruma to bridge the gap between skyrim and oblivion!! #iirc theres a scene that plays out of thalmor agents questioning the bruma chapel guys over their decision to name the chapel after martin #the thalmor are like 'well ur trying to worship a mortal man as a god and that goes against the spirit of our agreement with the empire' #and the other guys are like 'but you never specified anything about st martin. hes not a divine and you cant punish us over a vague notion #of not being in the spirit of talos bans' and i was like fuck yes!!! i love seeing consequences!!!!

[immoralkombat]

i'm going to be so mentally ill about evil ninja mime and fire lord johnny cage now <3

#mk1 spoilers #mortal kombat 1 spoilers #johnny cage #mk1 #mortal kombat 1 #mk1 2023 #mortal kombat 1 2023 #ninja mime #FIRE LORD JOHNNY IS REAL! shame he's evil but ah well. pobody's nerfect <3 #i am so fuckingggggggggggggggggg #i rly love the way that the writers merged both endings of mk11 but also. not a fan of multiverses tbh #hopefully they don't screw the pooch on this one and make things a fuckstorm of infinite proportions #also johnny and kenshi are so totally banging. shame they didn't have the balls to show any kisses on-screen that weren't heterosexual :/ #like yeah liu kang and kitana are my favorite straight couple in these games but like. c'mon. where's the yaoi or the yuri? #must homosexuals be condoned to a life of tender shoulder touches and carries? #has not our keeper of time a heart that understands how deeply it beats and yearns for love and compassion... regardless from whom? #(i mean. he should. he and geras were probably slangin' dong on one another on the regs before the kangtana reunion tour) #i'm just saying if raiden were the keeper of time there would've been an entire chapter dedicated to yaoi and another to yuri #raiden threw the first brick at stonewall #can't believe i get to bring that fucking tag back. #anyway sorry for the big tag rant. overall i rly like mk1 and look forward to seeing what else happens <3 #but also i would've loved to have had more confirmation that johnny is actually Straight Up With another person besides the ex-wife #also side note love his ex-wife and her weird inconsistent accent #oh speaking of inconsistent acting megan fox sweetie i love you but i have the feeling you had no idea where you were for these recordings. #like miss thing sounded so confused that entire time #@ netherrealm if you want i could be a kombat pack nitara voice replacement. i'm no megan fox but i am transgender and also homosexual <3 #wait nvm i just realized that'd be crossing the picket line. stand with SAG-AFTRA and the WGA besties #anyway. yeah. mk1 (2023) was p good and i'm excited to see what they're gonna do with this new set of events and the new chara alignments #they really did babygirlify shang tsung and quan chi huh #not sure how to feel about that