#wounds on the soul

[cats-obsessions]

Durge and Gortash progressively playing a game of chicken as their relationship progresses where they continuously do vaguely threatening yet innocent gestures to test each other’s (dis)trust. It starts with something simple like Gortash placing his hand on Durge’s shoulder near their neck. He just wants to see the Bhaalspawn squirm, he justifies. Of course, Durge plays along- they won’t show weakness. So, it becomes a game. They do things like playing with a dagger while they talk, cutting the loose thread off each others’ shirt collar, bringing each other food or drinks with no guarantee it’s not poisoned, Durge insisting on shaving Gortash’s quickly growing beard for him after too many long nights planning. In the end, it just becomes habit, and they’ve just tricked themselves into allowing this intense domestic affection, allowing vulnerability and showing unquestioned trust. Oops. They still think it’s edgy though. Anyone else who sees it thinks they’re just married.

#it could vary from incredibly normal to unhinged ‘your life is in my hands’ #but even if it’s something normal like bringing the other coffee #they’re so weirdly intense about it at first #bc it is intense to them who never trusted another soul #stitching each others wounds is a good one #my Durge has an eyebrow piercing and I hc Gortash convinced Durge to let him do it #durgetash #goretash #enver gortash #gortash #durge #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #lord enver gortash #cats thoughts

[raepliica]

protecting each other

#trigun #cw blood #nicholas d. wolfwood #vash the stampede #vashwood #my art #hurt/comfort #i needed to draw them covered in blood #nothing more romantic than going ape shit when your buddy is injured<3 #and then lovingly tending to his wounds and staying by his side to comfort him<3<3 #they both would blame themselves sm for letting the other be wounded #ww wouldnt try to argue with vash that its no use for him to feel guilty and would just be there until his mood is better #while vash would try to understate his pain to try and reassure ww but he would totally see through his bs #THEY NEED TO COMMUNICATE PROPERLY IT MAKES ME GO CRAZY #vashwood nose nuzzle heals my soul #raepliica_art

[yes-this-account-is-alive]

If you hadn't spent as much time as you've had with Blade, you wouldn't have noticed the small quirk of his lips when you asked him, "Would it be romantic if I gave you spider lilies?"

"...hmph, perhaps," he would say flatly. But, you knew for a fact that he was amused. "Though, romance is but a fleeting memory... no, it is something that I do not know."

There was the slightest tinge of melachony to that line, but it disappeared as fast as it came. His lips were turned downwards a little, barely pursed. The vermillion of his eyes seem to be clouded with something complex as his thoughts stew behind them. Ever the interesting individual, nothing you weren't used to though.

Pulling a little something from your pockets, you presented it to him ceremoniously. "Then allow me to gift you this spider lily," you grinned. A little distraction from his internally brewing dialogue, Aeons knew he did that an unhealthy amount when he was not out playing his part in Elio's schemes or burning sword techniques into his bones.

He stared at the flower for a while, before taking it from your hands with his bandaged one. He brought it up, closer to his eyes and observed it quietly. Your hands were placed back on your lap as you eagerly awaited his next line, if he had one to give.

A light huff escapes his chest as the corner of his eyes crinkle just a smidge, "...thank you." You smile brighter and the room falls back into a comfortable silence as the two of you continue to watch the vast galaxy.

'How amusing, this spider lily does not represent a somber memory,' he thought to himself as he held it.

#hsr x reader #hsr #hsr blade #hsr blade x reader #blade x reader #the bandages on his body may hold his wounds together as the mara slowly heals them #but it is your prescence and radiance that helps soothe his corrupt soul #can you tell that i am so sad for him #man #i love him

[kikker-oma]

I feel bad for killing legend (not) so here is some legend fluff to fix my evil doings >:]

based off of:

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Deep footprints painted the snow as Legend rolled out his bedroll near the fire. Of course, once this snow melted it would be put out, but for now he should enjoy the warmth.

Sometimes he wonders if it ever snowed back in Koholit, probably not, as it really only “existed” while he was there. He looked over at Time, could he and Marin have what the old man has? He hoped so, but he will never know.

Bittersweet tears lingered through the veterans eyes for a second, but crying won’t change what he lost. Nothing can change what beautiful life he threw away-

“Hey vet! Wanna look at pictures on my slate?” Wild held up his slate. Legend still has no idea how these pictures are taken. Kids and their advanced technology…

“Not right now, I’m busy.” Busy sulking. Legend grumbled, “Can’t you go ask Sky or something? I’m sure he’d love to.”

The cook scrunched his nose for a second, and then shook his head, “Nah, he’s angry at me for using the master sword as a flashlight.”

“I-“ Legend paused he was so lonely would he want to have the company? Would this person end up leaving him like the rest? He could make do with company, for a little bit. “Fine. Sit.” He removed a blanket from the spot beside him. “Okay so basically, this is the time ‘Rule burnt an entire pot of water…” Wild zoomed in on the image, “I secretly pour the ash in your bowls whenever you guys are annoying.”

“That’s so petty!” Legend pokes the champion. He wraps blanket around himself, shielding him from the winter chill and basking in the chaos stored into a tiny screen.

“Oh so you want ashy oatmeal tonight?”

“No thank you.” Legend would prefer to have non toxic food.

As Wild scrolled through the slate, it became clear why Koholit looked like it did.

Legend wanted a family. …

And now, he got one.

“Hey champ?”

“hm?”

“I don’t say this enough, but I love you.”

Wild chuckled, and leaned in to the blanket burrito, “You too, brother.”

Awwww they're so CUUUTEE❤️❤️❤️❤️ ack, I think the biggest reason I love LU is because they really are all such brothers🥺

I love that Wild is avoiding Skys wrath because he needed the master sword as a flashlight hahaha he'll never learn lol

Being busy sulking is a MOOD lol

#sweet blarefordaglare #thank you for appeasing my wounded soul #even if you were the one to wound it in the first place lol #and you're so sweet to base it off of my drawing🥺❤️❤️ #fics for oma #linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu legend #lu wild

[conscious-love]

The right person will know how to hold your love. The right person will choose you just as deeply as you choose them. You will not have to quiet the way you care, you will never feel like you are too much. You will not have to beg for the love you deserve. One day, you will be met where you are. One day, you will be someone's favorite thing, and you will not be confused — you will not feel like you are fighting for someone who isn't fighting for you. One day, you will understand that it never mattered how tightly you held on to the wrong people, how intensely you tried, because the right people were always going to find you. The right people were always going to stay.

Bianca Sparacino

#Bianca Sparacino #rainbowsalt #love #relationships #true love #the one #alignment #meant to be #soul mates #breakup #heartbreak #rejection #rejected #abandonment #abandonment wound #people always leave

[shaunthesheesh]

The audacity of them to start the movie while Creep by Radiohead plays in the background and Rocket is singing along!

#guardians of the galaxy #guardians of the galaxy vol. 3 #like why would you do this to me #that is like my favorite song #im a wounded soul #i didn't need to see another wounded soul sing along to that song #i should have known this movie was gonna make me an emotional wreck because of it's starting #i was not mentally prepared for this #i was not emotionally prepared for this #i cried so much for that bloody raccoon #i love you rocket #i keep remembering all the scene in the previous movie and rockect's behavior to certain things and now it makes sense why would he do them #rocket raccoon

[frodo-with-glasses]

So uh. I might’ve found a pattern here.

From The Fellowship of the Ring, “Three Is Company”:

From The Two Towers, “The Uruk-Hai”:

From The Return of the King, “The Houses of Healing”:

Now I know Tolkien hated allegory. And I know LotR is not a copy-and-paste parable about WWII (which he didn’t fight in) or even WWI (which he did). But the man did see war, and so did people he loved, and he had a non-zero amount of trauma, and some of that is gonna make its way into his writing somehow.

And I think his soul might’ve had something to say about soldiers being forced to walk until they dropped from exhaustion.

#lord of the rings #lotr #honestly i think the first quote is the most chilling in this context?? #like the second one pretty clearly portrays the horror of those marches #and the third seems like a realistic best-case scenario: you walk until you drop and then a familiar and beloved voice wakes you up #but the first is?? almost desperately happy?? like he’s reaching so far to say ‘no i swear this traumatic thing could be beautiful and good’ #‘it could be good!’ #‘IT COULD BE GOOD!! I SWEAR’ #‘PLEASE JUST LET ME HAVE THIS’ #and you get this sense of desperation #like he wishes a tall and beautiful Elf was there to help him and the other exhausted young men up when they stumbled and fell #i dunno if i’m making any sense but it kinda makes my heart hurt #i feel like i’m peeking into an open wound in this man’s soul

[golbiey]

sonic the hedgehog idw comic gorls ✨ tangle the lemur, whisper the wolf, and jewel the beetle (and also the wisps)

#sonic the hedgehog #idw sonic #tangle the lemur #whisper the wolf #jewel the beetle #sonic wisps #sth #sonic #idw comics gradually healing the wounds that the departure of archie sonic left on my soul #i think i am very behind though LOL because i just have the 2 hardcovers #i havent even seen any of the idw comics out in the wild?? granted i could look a little harder

[stupidfreakingthoughts]

Thinking about teacher Steve Harrington. Because there is no way in hell Steve wouldn’t go into some type of career working with kids. He was too good at it, he loved it, loved having kids that he could take care of and provide support too in case their childhoods are anything like his was. because if there is any chance of Steve preventing another King of Hawkins High, he’ll take it.

Steve struggled with finding a career. He stayed at his job at Family Video working with Robin until she and the older group graduated and Nancy left to go to some fancy college away from all her trauma. Eddie, Robin and Jonathan went to a community college because that’s all they could afford and Steve was still stuck at his Family Video job. He decided to apply at the same college they all went to for the next fall, doing a two-year degree like the rest of them (except Nancy, she was taking a four-year english degree so that she could take her journalism career further).

After those two years, Eddie’s band got bigger and bigger until it could become his full time job. Corroded Coffin became one of the top metal bands in the world, touring and selling out venues. Meanwhile, Steve and Robin decided to go into the same career path, because they both loved their kids and they had never not worked together, it just felt right.

Steve wanted to work in a middle school, so that he could hopefully help kids out, stop them from becoming bullies like he was. He got a position as the Hawkins Middle Gym Coach, and Robin was the Drama teacher. Steve knew that not everyone was like him in middle school, plenty of people hated exercise and being active. He tried to make the class as fun as possible, playing fun games and not forcing anyone to do anything. Plus, there was always music playing in his class.

His students very quickly picked up on his love for the up and coming band, Corroded Coffin. Of course, they didn’t realize that he was the subject of most of their songs, whether they were sappy love songs (though still metal, of course) or some of CCs more obscure songs, the ones about bats and other dimensions that none of the public understood. His class just knew that whenever they were running laps, they were usually running along to the awesome guitar riffs and drum solos of Corroded Coffins music. They didn’t get why Mr. Harrington, the former basketball captain who was always in his sportswear or jerseys from different teams, liked this punk, metal band that just seemed completely out of his preferred genre of music.

But when they find out who Mr Harringtons husband is, it all starts to make sense.

#teacher steve HAS MY SOUL #he has to work with kids in every universe #or something is wrong #stranger things #steve harrington #robin buckley #eddie munson #steddie is my entire life right now #they’re so perfect for each other #steddie #steddie ficlet #the duffers killing off eddie still wounds me #famous eddie munson #he’s a whole ass rockstar #and his husband steve is a teacher of course #teacher steve harrington #I LOVE THEM #THEYRE GAY #GAY

[howtofightwrite]

What's gonna happen if someone gets shoot in the head? Will flesh and blood go all over the place, or will it be a small entry and exit, or will it be something else? Tryna write a zombie story rn and I'm not sure 😭

Usually, they die.

How much damage the head suffers will depend on what was fired. Specific cartridges result in different wound patterns, and if you have a forensic background, you may even be able to identify the bullet used based on the entrance and exit wound. Smaller handgun rounds are likely to result in less tissue disruption. Rifle rounds are more likely to cause serious structural damage, and shotgun shells (particularly buckshot) are likely to cause serious tissue disruption. But, there's another consideration, the more the decomposed the target, the more a round is likely to do. This one's honestly pretty hard to assess in generalities, because there are a lot of factors for decomposition.

This also leads into a far more difficult question, “what happens if you shoot a zombie in the head?” The answer might be, “nothing.”

So, there's two groups of zombies in popular fiction, and the answer to the above question hinges on which one you're examining. Zombies can either be infected with rabies or actual undead, and the latter are far more uncommon in modern pop culture.

A lot of popular zombies are, technically, alive, but cognitively functioning on a more animal level. In many cases, their symptoms are fairly similar to a sever rabies infection (though, the 28 Days Later series is one of the rare cases where the infection is, explicitly, a variant of rabies.) This also includes cases where the infection is from a parasite (many of the later Resident Evil games and of course The Last of Us are examples of this.) In these cases, destroying the brain stem (and, for that matter, destroying the brain) should be effective. The zombie is still propelled by using their nervous system. There's a bit of an exception in cases where the infection creates a second, parallel, nervous system in the victim, which can operate independently of the victim's original.

Living zombies became more popular in the 90s, and were extremely frequent in the mid-2000s. Most horror films that try to downplay the supernatural component, or look to play up the bio-hazardous nature of zombies, is likely to use some variant of these. (As mentioned earlier, a lot of these tend to behave like mutant strains of rabies. And, while it might sound like I'm being flippant here, rabies is a pretty terrifying virus.)

Living zombie apocalypses are, basically, impossible. There's the usual problem of asking how did the zombies actually get to critical mass? But even beyond that, eventually the infected would simply start dropping as their bodies decayed and the victims died. They'd still be a bio-hazard, but you wouldn't see waves of the undead pressing against the defenders' barricades.

If you want a much more detailed breakdown of the biology of various critters in pop culture (including a lot of zombies), Roanoke Gaming on YouTube is an excellent reference.

The other variety of zombie are far more rare in pop culture, and these are the actual revenants. Either they've been raised by some necromancer, or they're returning due to some other factor. Critically, these zombies are, truly, undead. Shooting them in the head might take it apart, but it's also quite likely that won't put them (back) down, as they're not actually using their original nervous system for anything meaningful. These kinds of zombies are far more threatening. In theory, things like extreme cold would cause further damage to these, but if the necromantic forces animating them don't care about the condition of the zombie, then having fingers or toes freeze off in cold weather, or setting them on fire, might not have the desired effects. You may need to resort to fully dismembering the corpses to get them to stop trying to kill you. (Note that these don't have to be, strictly, supernatural. The Dead Space series remains an excellent example of a non-magical zombie apocalypse of this variety, with some extremely “creative” uses of dead biomass.)

In the case of reanimated zombies, firearms are not a particularly great option for putting them down in general. The damage they inflict simply isn't relevant to destroying the undead. Firearms are designed to poke holes in people and get their body to spring a leak, but if something is already dead, that's probably not going to matter unless you're using the gun to deliver some other kind of payload.

-Starke

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#how to fight write #Starke answers #writing advice #writing reference #writing tips #looking at gunshot wounds is soul destroying #zombies

[selfproclaimedunicorn]

I commissioned the lovely @murmel-malt to draw the Royce siblings from my HOTD OC fic: Sins Of The Father

I'm so incredibly jazzed with how my kids turned out, they are beautiful & I will be returning for more at some point. 💕

#the arrangement from biggest to smallest that wound up having yorick flanked by his mentally unwell attack dogs #Ella's green gems on her belt! #aemon's rbf! #Yorick staring into my soul! #its beautiful. I've stared at this for five hours now #ocs #oc: ella royce #oc: yorick royce #oc: aemon royce #fic: sins of the father #sotf art #asoiaf oc #fyeahhotdocs

[apopcornkernel]

Euripides’ Bacchae (trans. Emily Wilson) / Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #100

#fae sent me this and my soul immediately evaporated from my body thank you fae (said through tears) #also tbh i wanted to do a panel from utrh but we never have bruce hug jason as he bleeds out from the wound bruce has given him so i settle #for this panel. esp bc it has an all white background which goes really well with the quotes #jason todd #bruce wayne #dc #batman #poppy speaks #oops almost forgot alt text #dcposting

[thebad-lydrawn-sanses]

Is Error in one of the Teams Or is he a loney guy?

And what does everyone fears/likes the most?

Killer: i like Nightmare (platonically) and i fucking hate paintbrushes Cross: oh, i fear cows and like tacos and chocolate. the only thing i like more than these two things was beating the shit out of Ink. it was funny and worth the scars Dust: abandonment Dust: … Dust: … Dust: i like…d Dust: …when Cross beat the shit out of Ink

(Horror likes making nests out of blankets/pillows and fears not having a steady food source. Currently taking a well-deserved nap.)

#killer sans #cross sans #dust sans #bandages #wounds #mentions of violence #food #Killer trying to cover his soul after having a panic attack over a wooden spoon that he momentarily mistook for a paintbrush #Dust had to think for a while about things he liked #the 'bone hurting juice' tshirt is one of the funnier gags i've made imo #Dust is making ground beef and ramen because they're easy to make btw #also they're probably gonna run out of paper towels to clean up the eye goop at some point #you don't want that stuff on regular towels and other fabrics it will stain #permanently #ok everyone in the gang is hating on Ink but i swear this isn't a blog where we bash Ink #he just happens to be on the opposite teams side and be very morally grey and fairly violent #queue #error sans #i almost forgot to put the overgrown toddler on the post specifically asking about him HELP #also yeah Error is lonely

[rustandsky]

Evisceration

#Great blue heron #Gold thread #Wound #Flowers #Vegetation #Inner soul #Turmoil #Fight #Theft #Symbolism #Stylized #Gold

[disruptivevoib]

For the Coil content wanters.

#This Garctic round wound up making Coil play roblox.. #chonnys charming chaos compendium #chonny jash #voidthoughts #fanvoids #cj soul #sun down au

[blindmagdalena]

really obsessed with soulmate au’s recently and it got me thinking… what if john’s soulmate was part of the boys? a girl trying to kill him with an entire group of people also trying to kill him… and he’s fated to her? could picture him finding out and just putting his hands on his hips while turning his back to her and doing that click chuckle thing. just in utter disbelief but it is definitely on track for fate’s little play with him and his life lolol

Oohhh, you know, I've never played much with the soulmate au concept, but this struck me just right because I can so clearly see the slow, building meltdown that strikes him when that reveal drops.

The mirthless laugh, shaking his head, the hapless gesture to the ceiling before his hands drop. "Of course. Of course it's you. Why wouldn't it be? I mean—Christ, it makes sense, doesn't it? Every single person who was supposed to love me has-has fucked it, so why—" he keeps cutting into this escalating, unsettling laughter. There's nothing funny about it: you're sure that you're watching someone lose the last shred of their sanity in real time. "Why would my 'soulmate'-", he says, miming big, dramatic quotation marks. "-be any different?" That manic grin has shifted into tight baring of his teeth, a vicious sneer. He closes in on you, stands so near you can feel the heat of his breath when he hisses, "I should put you in the fucking dirt with the rest of them."

It should be terrifying, but it's hard to focus on anything other than the glassiness of his eyes. The sheer devastating heartbreak of it all, telegraphed clear as day in the way he carries himself. His eyes flare red, sizzling up the tears before they can fall. "And then you really will be all alone," you say. Maybe it's the hopelessness of the moment, maybe it's the shock of learning for yourself that he's supposed to be your one and only, but you feel numb. Frayed in a way you didn't know you could be. The crimson light of his eyes disappears in an instant, revealing surprise, followed by a wounded kind of look, before that familiar seething rage returns. "We'll see about that."

#oh man i could get carried away with this real easy #i did here lbr #i guess it's up to the author just how connected soulmates are and how that kind of reveal happens #idk i'm a baby to the genre #but it would be very fun to write a situation where HL wants to strangle them just as much as he wants to snuggle up in their lap #they're at odds in every conceivable way but there is this soul deep pull to one another #coming to terms with the fact passion is the root of BOTH hatred and love #also the idea that HL was sincerely holding out hope all this time that his One Perfect Person was out there waiting for him wounds ME #only to be struck down by the realization that oh they ALSO want him dead #aaaaaaAAAAAAA #i'm sorry i'm so rambly today lmao thank you for the ask!!! i'm gonna have brain worms all day #darling anon #ask and you shall receive #homelander x reader #homelander x you #soulmate au #my writing