Tales From The Crypt - "Only Skin Deep" - (1994)

Release Tour & Giveaway: Magic, Demons, and the Hunter by JP Sayle

Release & Instagram Tour & Giveaway: Magic, Demons, and the Hunter By JP Sayle Enchanted Ink, Book 2 Three men, destined to be together. Two believe their third is dead. The third doesn’t even know his mates exist. Mondo suffers from a five-year-old hole in his memory and recurrent dreams of two men. On a mission to Salem to determine if demons are murdering humans, his life becomes complicated…

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finally at that age where i'm thinking i should get a tattoo. not bc i feel strongly about it, just seems like a waste not to. i've got so much skin i'm not using

Perversions of Science | Planely Possible S1.E6 | 1997

hey so friendly reminder

stede gives *full body* kisses

Giving Yuzuka a gf when she was human, just for you @tobytoon. The lyrics are from Melanie Martinez’s Play date

I havnt given her gf a name yet but I kinda have an ending for her planned out. And the pattern on her kimono is Fukiyose - dead leaves in the wind. ✨Symbolism✨ Yuzu’s pattern is the Belladonna plant <3

Their songs?

- I Bet On Losing Dogs -> Mitsuki

- Me and Mr Wolf -> The Real Tuesday Weld

- Monster -> Dev

- Too Sweet -> Hozier

- Fear & Delight -> The Correspodents (one of my fav songs tbh)

Yuzuka has always been a more self-centered person but with the demands of her work environment she’s become very apathetic and vengeful, she’s not really close with her parents either

If you have name suggestions for her gf please lemme know. They liked each other a lot, she seemed like something good in Yuzuka’s life that she didn’t want to lose. But alas, thinking of others isn’t her strong suit at all - given the chance at revenge on her employer she took it almost without hesitation.

They’re kinda cute ngl I couldn’t the damn marker for Yuzuka until like after I finished drawing her and the balding orange is killing me TT it’s meant to be more yellow toned and slightly less saturated

Alas

I’ll do better art of them later lol

so whats mac’s equivalent to the pen chewing thing in this verse……

So you know how Takayoshi gifted Akemi two songbirds in a cage together as a sincere apology for his mother?

I think those two birds are meant to symbolize both Akemi and Takayoshi. They are both marginalized in some way despite their privilege. Akemi as the daughter of a lord and Takayoshi as the disabled second son of the shogun are both denied agency in their roles despite their privilege. Takayoshi and Akemi both are song birds in a gilded cage. Two pawns to the political and social machinations of their parents. Akemi a victim to her father’s political aspirations and Takayoshi evidently a victim to his mother’s social manipulations.

(Aside: and possibly emotional abuse/neglect, with the way he was forbidden from speaking to women and who knows what actually happened to this first wife. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that it seems to me like this is all in service of maintaining a “respectable” image of the family, and cannot risk having people know he has a stutter. just spitballing here)

If I were to make a prediction for season 2, or a wish, it’s that I would like to see Akemi and Takayoshi form a genuine bond and alliance as two privileged-yet-marginalized individuals having to navigate a politically fraught and rigidly hierarchical society, and I think there’s at least some textual evidence to support this being a real possibility.

They demonstrate in the show Takayoshi is no fool and that he’s clearly an educated and well-read man. Take how he engages with Akemi’s poetry during sex compared to Taigen as an example. He simply has a disability and is somewhat submissive and subdued (likely due to being shamed or ridiculed for his stutter and getting little to no support as a child). They are capable of being intellectual equals. Any sort of power or control Akemi would gain over Takayoshi is by virtue of the kindness and empathy she is showing him, not because she’s outsmarting him. I believe Takayoshi is willingly surrendering himself to his wife and cognizant of this fact.

I think we may see a dynamic where Akemi will both advocate for her own political ends but also at times advocate for and try to protect her husband where she can where familial and interpersonal relationships are involved. I really really hope their union will be one that grows in political power through the healing power of love, compassion, and solidarity between two marginalized individuals.

They can acknowledge the humanity in each other and see each other as equals in their shared pain and victimization, and find empowerment through each other. If they cannot be their own masters at least they can be each other’s sole masters.

Takayoshi and Akemi may be two songbirds stuck in a gilded cage, stripped of their freedom and humanity. But they at least have each other and together they can harmonize.

There’s something so personal about the number of times The Raven Boys aligns Gansey’s relationship with Adam to his relationship with Blue

Wouldn’t want him getting lost now, would we (Patreon)

Alicent after her husband damns her children, the ones he forced onto her, the ones she carried and birthed and loved and spent her whole life protecting. after he leaves her, dying a pathetic death, leaving her and her children alone in the world, even more than he had before. after her children are robbed from her, meeting fates promised to them at birth, ones she tried so hard to change. after being left to roam an empty keep, the sounds of her children's antics now long gone. after hearing her own cries echo in the septs, but never reaching the gods, rattling the walls of her chambers, yet falling on deaf ears. Alicent after she decides she will be king, in her eldest's stead, she will weild her own sword in place of her most trusted friend and closest son, she will fill the world with her words like her daughter had, she will take revenge as she sees fit as her youngest had:

Release Tour & Giveaway: Only Skin Deep by Kelex

Release & Instagram Tour & Giveaway: Only Skin Deep By Kelex Enchanted Ink, Book 1 Welcome to the world of Enchanted Ink! For a price, master tattooists can place a beautiful spell directly onto your skin. Want to be wealthy? Beautiful? Loved? You’ve come to the right place. Just make sure the price you’ll pay is worth it as the cost isn’t always in gold. **** Luca Galioto can tattoo just about…

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Avatar: The Last Airbender Aang RP Icons

Free to use. Likes or reblogs are cool.  Icons are from Avatar: The Last Airbender - Dirty Is Only Skin Deep.  There are 7 of them.

I really like how human and flawed characters skins are in this game. The deep scars on Wyll's face, the visible viens and circles on Astarion's eyes. Gale's discolouration around his left eye because of the orb.

The visible pores and pigmentation on Shadowheart's skin, the scar across her face too.

Jaheira's and Minthara's very visible wrinkles and aged skin, Minthara's small and thin lips.

The dots and moles on Karlach's face. The sever scarring of her shoulders.

It genuinely feels like real actual skin, the same skin I see when I look at the mirror. All these characters are insanely beautiful with it, not despite it but alongside it for how real and alive it makes them look.