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m-blackwell-and-associates · 2 months

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Follow Up pt 4

This dour mood followed Angelina for the rest of the car ride and doubled when pushed into the morgue to find the medical examiner already there with Peitro’s Proxy. The Rosselini took one look at her and then her gaze slid to Pietro standing just behind her. Angelina knew she had been dismissed out of hand and the anger seethed. Such a thing had happened many times before. When people went to meet the Donna of Grenoble, they expected a woman in her prime, perhaps one aged into wisdom, all demure silk velvet over maternal steel. When they saw a slight girl frozen forever at 18, round face still carrying the memory of childhood, they discounted what they saw and turned to Pietro as the continuing authority, he having been her voice and direction up until the moment of their first meeting.

Pietro, well schooled and endless amused by this bitter bit of theater, stayed where he was and said nothing, waiting for Diana Rossellini to figure out the silent error she had made. Angelina did not wait for those brown eyes to widen, or the face go ashen to realize she had dismissed the one that had given permission to be Proxied and that permission could be revoked.

“What did you find?”

The Proxy caught herself, startling to be addressed, but not looking alarmed to be caught out. “Donna Angelina, a pleasure to - “

“Yes,” Angelina agreed, a great pleasure to meet yet another family member that would have to be taught respect and comportment. “Your findings?”

Angelina could feel Pietro’s amusement behind her, like a wave of warmth coming off a fire and she made a mental note to address his instigating these awkward introductions at a later time. One did not humiliate one’s enforcer. Not if one wanted to keep their good humor and loyalty.

The medical examiner cleared her throat from where she stood on the other side of the table, a skeleton, white and unweathered, laid neatly on a steel topped table. “I’ve been able to narrow it down to three missing persons.”

“A three way tie?” Angelina asked, brows raised as if mildly curious about the outcome and the examiner flushed, turning a faintly accusatory stare at Diana.

“I had just arrived with the dental records, Donna.” Diana handed them to the examiner, as cool as you please. The way the other woman snatched them out of the Proxy’s hands suggested that the files had been withheld, either for spite or for testing of the examiner's skill in reading the bones. It wasn’t that Angelina disapproved of testing the academic might of the people called upon to perform a service, just that at this moment, Angelina wasn’t in the mood for delays. Or for anyone to decide now was the time for a power play.

Hurriedly, the woman took out the x-ray images, the shaded transparencies hung up on the light box to be studied. They waited, Angelina not unaware of the Rosselini’s subtle attempt to size her up, comparing what she saw to what she had imagined. For her part, she let it go. There would be time later to put Pietro’s Proxy in her place if necessary.

“This one, Ms. Giovanni,” the medical examiner said, hurriedly. Taking down the transparency, she slid it back into its file and handed it to Angelina over the table holding their mysteriously departed. “I’ll give you a moment.” Stripping off her gloves, the woman left.

“Simeon Boucher,” Angelina read aloud before putting the file down on the metal table. “One parent still living, two siblings living abroad, no spouse, no children. Cause of death, blunt force trauma.”

“That would be consistent with what we saw when we dumped his body,” Diana confirmed. “We - “

But Angelina wasn’t interested in the explanations or stories the Rosellini was quick to give. Ignoring her, she stripped off her own gloves and set the soft black leather aside, concentrating on the well ordered bones before her.

“Simon Boucher,” she murmured under the self-aggrandizing chatter of the Proxy. “Let’s see if you’re still here.” Angelina laid both hands on the bones, one hand cradling around the smooth curve of the skull, thumb tracing along the zygomatic arch where a spider web of fractures hinted at the violence of the man’s final moments. The other hand rested on the cracked and ragged remains of the sternum.

She wasn’t surprised to feel that Simon’s soul still lingered. A death as sudden as violent as his had been, often made spirits bound to this world. Ones so bound were unable to let go of their former lives and find whatever peace was beyond the Shadowlands. Angelina called to the spirit gently, testing to see at what strength the contest of wills between her and the unwilling dead, and while she hadn’t been surprised to know he lingered, she was surprised at the promptness of his response.

Simon’s soul manifested as suddenly as switching on a light, vivid and clean as if drawn on her vision by some bold artist with only a faint transparency to suggest that he wasn’t of this world. Whatever chatter Diana had been engaging in stopped and Angelina had blessed silence in which to contemplate the spirit.

“You’re like her,” it whispered, voice coming from some other place.

“Like whom, Mr. Boucher?” Angelina asked, hand absently stroking the smooth bone of the skull, as if petting a cat, or soothing a child.

“I assume he’s talking about Elizabeth,” Diana put in unnecessarily. “I didn’t think little Miss Princess could do the family business.”

Angelina set her jaw, cross that the Rosselini dared to speak, but before she could order her cousin to silence, the sad and despondent shade of the late Simon turned to survey the room. Once his eyes fell upon the disdainful Diana, it flared, a shadow behind a flame, blown to grotesque proportions and flickering as if caught in a hot and terrible wind.

“You left me to die!” It roared, leaning towards the shocked Rosselini, mouth agape and hands turned to grasping claws. “YOU KILLED ME!”

Sternly, Angelina bound the enraged wraith of Simon Boucher so it could not attack the stunned woman. But, with a bit of satisfied spite, she let it slowly drift in her directly, forcing Diana to back up a step. Aloud, she said, “Perhaps your recounting of your mission wasn’t entirely correct, Ms. Rosselini?”

The look that Diana shot her before looking back at her slowly stalking wraith was murderous. “No, Donna. We found him dead and - “ The wraith roared, cursing. “He was beyond saving! I could see that just by looking at him!”

Angelina believed Diana when she said that she had seen the man’s fast approaching death. It was her family curse, after all. Everything was on the cusp of death to her and everyone that had the Rosselini gift. She did not, however, believe that Simon had been beyond saving.

“He might have been more useful alive, Ms. Rosselini,” Angelina said, sounding disapproving of Diana's protests and indifferent of her discomfort.

#amwriting #authors #fiction #flash fiction #m blackwell & associates #vampire #oc #clangiovanni #Clan Giovanni #Angelina Giovanni #Diana Rossellini #No one hates you like family #Professionally Petty #Family Business #wraith #Summon Spirit #Sad bones #Follow UP #chronicles of darkness

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papanowo · 3 months

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when your boyfriend is also your dietician

( prompt fill for @mcspirkevents' bingo card prompt, "ice cream" )

#my art #star trek #star trek tos #james t kirk #jim kirk #spock #bones mccoy #leonard mccoy #mcspirk #i just realised tumblr totally messes up the colour on these wtf…#why are the pants so dark sad face emoji

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muffinlance · 3 months

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I'm barely to the massacre and I can already tell I'm going to be screaming at every this-makes-no-sense decision made by the writers (your temple is under violent attack, and you evacuate the kids... to a barely enclosed corner in a prominent temple room? Instead of to the hundreds of sky bison that were highlighted as flying in earlier? Why?) (And Aang left to clear his head and think instead of to run from his duties? That's such a less compelling plot arc?) (And the show had him briefly monologue about being a goofy kid who loves pies and his friends instead of using the extended temple scene to show any of that? Didn't want to pay more child actors, did you, Netflix?)

Yeah I'm just. Going to be screaming at the screen instead of enjoying this. Different decisions aren't necessarily bad, but when those decisions seem to be in the direction of "show a man burning alive before we even get to the on-screen massacre" this is just... not the show for me.

#The original show emphasized the horror and sadness of the massacre by putting it in the context of people and culture lost #This one is going the Show People We Don't Know Burning Alive Clearly That Will Make More Of An Impression route #Gyatso's bones will always be the epitome of heart break #get out of here with your on-screen immolations just to demonstrate literally flashy cgi #Anyway someone tell me if the Omashu episode is worth watching in isolation I've seen gifs of Zuko getting brow-beat by Random Market Lady #And that DOES sound hilarious #But is the rest of the episode worth it or should I stick to gifs #This is like trying to decide if a barely-canon-divergent fanfic is worth slogging through #For its five fun new scenes #When the rest is just The Same As The Original But Worse #avatar the last airbender #atla #natla #netflix atla

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i-lavabean · 4 months

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See someone's got to tell the tale, whether or not it turns out well

Maybe it will turn out this time

#on the road to hell on the railroad line #it's a sad song #it's a sad tale it's a tragedy #it's a sad song but we sing it anyway #my art #lavabean art #aabria iyengar #quiddie #Hadestown lyrics for Tide and Bone are helping me cope with the finale #circle of tide and bone spoilers #candela obscura #circle of tide and bone

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warandpeas · 9 months

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Losersaurus

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#bones #bullies #bully #comic #dino #dinosaur #elizabeth pich #funny #funny and sad #humor #jonathan kunz #lol #loser #museum #on display #one day #sad #sad but funny #war and peas #webcomic

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dustykneed · 4 months

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the rough childhood trio with their childhood pets. (each of these gets a couple sentences of variably cryptic context-- all up for interpretation, of course. in my head these are all bittersweet ^^)

i-chaya wasn't supposed to be at school, technically, but amanda had a talk with the teachers, and they concluded that it was logical to allow i-chaya to continue to accompany spock to school, when his performance showed such marked improvement when she was around.

sometimes, during intervals between lessons, which were always timed precisely for optimal development of social skills, spock would sit cross-legged in a corner of the schoolyard, and i-chaya would sink down onto the red sand beside him and nudge at his cheek with her damp nose, and spock would reach up into her coarse, thick coat and press his forehead into the safety of her fur until the stinging remarks of the other children would melt and fall away in the harsh vulcan sun.

"he's up there in the stars, jamie. whenever you feel like you're on your own, just look up at the night sky and count the stars. he would've been so proud of you."

james tiberius kirk read, once, that pigs were unable to look up at the sky. from then on, he made sure to prop all of the pigs on the farm up every so often, so that they could look at the stars with him. for his birthday, his mother knit him two matching sweaters with stars on the chest-- one for him, and the other for wilbur (the grandpiglet of the sow she tripped over a decade ago).

bones was raised, essentially, by the large, calico barncat who lived on the mccoys' farm. she had not been named, and she wouldn't let anyone else touch her-- only bones.

when he was a baby, she curled up beside him in his crib with her tail around his ankle to stop him from crawling out and hurting himself.

when he got older, on difficult days, she would grab him by the sock and drag him to the old rocking chair in the attic and curl up on his lap and bite at his fingers until he could bring himself to pet her, and then she would purr and purr as he stroked through her warm, soft fur and rocked himself better in the big rocking chair. if anyone tried to drag bones away, she would hiss and yowl and bat vehemently at the intruding hands until he could be left alone.

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nextimeiny · 2 months

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#i'm insane. i'm deranged. i'm a fucking goner. FINITO!!#chainshipping #sorry i've been listening to a lot of mitski as of late and dudes. it's been a time #it's so them coded. bag of bones is also them coded in like a adam lives but it's sad and toxic way. aka one of the better ways #(i looove soft and domestic and fluffy chainshipping and i absolutely think it's possible. but there's something about that toxicity man.)#('finn why did you use the behind the scenes footage of the love scene' ever heard of color palettes. fucko)#adam faulkner stanheight #lawrence gordon

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daftmooncretin · 4 months

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one of the funniest parts of canon tos has to be that everytime kirk is even slightly in a bad mood bones is immediately up in the captains log like: dear diary, my friend jim was slightly mean to chekov today, clearly he is mentally deranged and i have to commit him asap :(

#no but seriously #anytime jim looks sad hes like: psych eval immediately or he’ll die #bones be whipping out the psych evals everytime he so much as sighs #hes so mom friend but also more specifically gay friend group mom friend #bones mccoy #jim kirk #spock #tos #star trek tos #star trek

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betashift · 1 year

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STAR TREK V: the final frontier (1989)

#ok then #the final frontier #star trek v: the final frontier #trekedit #tosedit #startrekedit #filmedit #scifiedit #80sedit #jim kirk #spock #bones #leonard mccoy #kirk x spock x bones #*mine #tff haters must be living such sad lives. this is the most important movie in the world actually (to me)#and i love that william shatner is probably entirely oblivious to the fact the he accidentally made the most shippy movie ever.#just beautiful :))

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she-posts-nerdy-stuff · 1 year

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I think one of the saddest, underrated moments in Six of Crows is when they escape the Ice Court and arrive in the harbour only to see the soldiers waiting for them, and there’s a moment before Nina bails them out where they all just sort of… accept it. They decide, almost unanimously with Nina being the only exception, that it’s okay to die now. That they tried, and they failed, but it’s okay because now it’s over. It’s almost like death is an excuse not to dwell on failing, because they won’t be able to. And yes, they decide to go out fighting, to go out strong, but in the end those are just words. They’re facing down a parem-drugged heartrender. They know that they have seconds left to live, maybe minutes if they’re lucky, and that all the fighting in the world couldn’t change that. They looked at each other and they thought “it’s over now, but that’s ok. We gave it our best shot”. The oldest person in this group is 18. Even Kuwei, the youngest at 15, is ready and he is probably facing a worse prospect than death by this point. And they decided they were ready. This singular moment is such a strong testament to their pain, to the unending grief that the world has put them through. They decided they were ready, and even in saving them all Nina thought she was killing herself. She was admitting to being ready too.

#it’s just so sad #grishaverse #leigh bardugo #six of crows #crooked kingdom #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #nina zenik #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #matthias helvar #kanej #wesper #helnik #kuwei yul bo #kuwei #the crows #shadow and bone #spoilers

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jeeaark · 3 months

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The wonderful thing about having the silence spell is that nobody can hear you ugly cry yourself to sleep~

So. Act 3 had a lot of consecutive rough moments. Hurt my heart playing as a gamer. Can't Imagine actually dealing with the fate of your companions' personal quests while in Greygold's/Tav's shoes.

While there are jokes about how Tav is the therapist of the party, my question is who's gonna be Tav's therapist??????

Anyway, just wanted to draw sad Greygold, balance out all the sillies ohohoho

#bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #greygold #bg3 fanart #bg3 comic #bg3 companions #love that lae'zel glitch #absolutely added to the heaviness Greygold felt ohohoho #i don't remember what astarion said -all I remember was that he was not happy~#been clicking all the 'THERE'S ALWAYS ANOTHER WAY' dialogue options so.... pretty sure that's deeply ingrained in Greygold's bones now #anyway ‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾ who wants to be sad with me?‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾

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hatekawa · 15 days

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Your art is so good and I really like your style! I was wondering, how do you draw backgrounds so well?

You probably mean that one background in the most recent part of the 3 months au comic which the making of was quite of a journey so im gonna explain it step by step

step 1. Pretend that you know what you're doing and practice (for example this background that I drew over a year ago for RinRee's comic "Broken Bonds" (the characters were drawn by her)), gain some experience

step 2. Get a minecraft reference (if you suck at perspective like me)

step 3. fail miserably

step 4. get more references

step 5. figure out what you did wrong, study (for ex. your references), practice some more (i cant show because my practice were other backgrounds for the 3 months au comic)

in my case what i did wrong was lack of warm up (the last time i drew an actual background was few months ago which is WAY TOO LONG), making it not look like an actual train and in general making the room look too organized and empty. Mikey is a chaotic and artistic soul so it's obvious that he'd have a mess in his room (it's important to think about what a character would have in their room, ex. art supplies, sticky notes/stickers, junk, posters etc)

step 6. try again

BONUS: I genuinely enjoy making backgrounds, so it's easier for me to stay patient and pay the attention to them that they need! :]

#ask #i have no idea how to tag this #art advice???#tutorial...#tuTORIEL #eh eh eh eh eh #why was the skeleton sad? because he was feeling BONELY or something i dont remember

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five-of-cr · 6 months

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darjeelinh · 1 year

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People always talk about this moment as Jesper falling in love and Wylan being encouraging to Alby but let’s also talk about how for a moment Wylan got lost in the music and he looked so peaceful he seemed to forget where he was. Like he was transported back to his childhood, playing music & all was well.

Let’s talk about how, yes, he was being encouraging to Alby, but he also probably saw a chance and jumped at it just to play the piano again, yearning to feel the keys under his hands, desperate for a moment of comfort. For a moment he was not Wylan Hendriks of the Barrel, he was Wylan Van Eck, playing music with his mother in their house again.

Then as quick as Wylan allowed himself to get lost in the music, that peace quickly shattered and reality crashed on him. He seemed to catch himself and pulled a mask on, retreated immediately back into hiding again.

The subtle change in expression? Jack Wolfe just knows how to break my heart 😭😭😭

#i made myself sad with this #forgive the shitty gifs i just need to put this thought out #wylan van eck #wylan hendriks #six of crows #shadow and bone #netflix shadow and bone #wesper #jesper fahey #sab season 2 #shadow and bone season 2 #jack wolfe #kit young #wylan my beloved #soc spoilers #ck spoilers #1k

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ragnarssons · 1 year

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mal was like “i need to fix myself” inej was like “hell no i’m not fixing you, you fix yourself” and zoya was like “i can fix him” matthias like “i don’t want your fixing” and wesper like “we’re fixed!” d*rkling was like “i’m beyond fixing” choose your fighter

#malina #kanej #zoyalai #helnik #wesper #shadow and bone #shab lb #shab spoilers #AND I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT GENYAVID BECAUSE IM TOO SAD

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etrevil · 9 months

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If manga!Dazai could, he'd go for Fyodor's jugular because he's using Chuuya like a plaything weapon against him. Anime!Dazai would just have a twitching smile and go on his merry way with Sigma 😭

where is our boy who was so obsessed with chuuya he spent the last seven years thinking of ways to "kill" him? where is our boy who after meeting chuuya said, "that's what makes me love you"? where is our boy who found a reason to live after he fought alongside chuuya?

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