#Unbound
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A meme outfit and an important message
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Alduin: My therapist told me to write letters to all the people I hate and then burn them. So I did that.
Alduin: But now I don't know what to do with the letters.
#was going to give this to astrid but then i had thorin freaking oakenshield screaming DRAGON DRAGON in my head so here you go have alduin#alduin#alduin the world eater#dragons#unbound#alduin's bane#a blade in the dark#dragonslayer#nerevar queue and star#incorrect quotes#incorrect elder scrolls#incorrect skyrim quotes#tes#the elder scrolls#skyrim#the elder scrolls v: skyrim#source: instagram
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He called him 'Jask' 🥺🤏🤍
#the witcher#the witcher netflix#the witcher season 3#the witcher season 3 vol 1#jaskier#geralt of rivia#jaskier and geralt#geralt and jaskier#jaskier x geralt#geralt x jaskier#geraskier#3x02#Unbound
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Remember when, towards the beginning of Unwind, Connor sees a storked baby on someone’s doorstep?
Connor has just escaped the juvies less than 48 hours beforehand. Right now, his main focus is not getting caught by juvies and being unwound as a result. He has Risa and Lev to look out for - not that he knows either of them very well at this point - but his main goal, at this point, is saving his own skin (literally). Connor didn’t object when his classmate, and fellow unwind, Andy Jameson, sacrificed himself for him. It was implied in a Facebook post (all the way back in 2011!) that Connor and Andy were friends - and Andy was ultimately unwound because he saved Connor’s life. Andy is never mentioned again. Connor feels no guilt over Andy entering a divided state for him.
And yet, when Connor sees that baby on the doorstep, he panics.
It’s not like the general public in the Unwind Universe care about storks that much. Starkey was tormented by his status as a stork - everyone else thought he was a joke because of it, and he hated himself for that. Bam feels similarly, and is no stranger to becoming aggressive with those who try to belittle her because she was abandoned as a baby. No adults seemed to want to help them in this regard - they sent Bam and Starkey off to be unwound in the end, because their status as storks and the lack of affection from everyone in their lives came to be too much, and their anger was no longer contained and internalized. Bam lived - but Starkey ultimately died because he, more than anything, wanted to be something other than a stork to be unwound, who wouldn’t amount to anything.
But that’s not the point here, really. Connor doesn’t know Bam or Starkey, let alone that Starkey will die at his only remaining hand. He’s not panicking because someone he knows is a stork, and is suffering because of it. Someone he knew was a stork, and died because not a single person in his neighborhood cared about keeping him alive.
A baby was put on the doorstep of Connor’s parents. They knew why he was there - they had been storked, and they were now legally, and morally, obligated to take in the baby as their own.
But they already had a seven year old and a four year old! Two boys, no less! They had no need for a third son. Surely no one had seen them be storked by whatever irresponsible girl had gotten herself pregnant and given her baby up to good, hardworking people, who shouldn’t have had to bear the burden of her bad decisions.
Surely no one would notice if they just moved the baby to the doorstep of the neighbors. Surely they wouldn’t mind raising a son.
But no one said a damn thing.
Two weeks later, the baby boy showed up on the Lassiter’s doorstep - again.
He was visibly sick, so close to death that only then, out of pity for the infant, did the Lassiter parents take him in. He died in the hospital - most likely alone, having never known a world in which he was wanted. He never knew a world in which he wasn’t passed from porch to porch, doorstep to doorstep, suffering, alone and sick, because of the silence and apathy of everyone around him.
Everyone in the neighborhood came to the baby’s funeral, a funeral that was only held because it would have looked terrible for the Lassiter parents to not hold a funeral for the baby that died on their watch, and was technically their son. And they all cried. They knew they were all responsible for that baby boy dying, so they cried and cried, never admitting guilt, never admitting that one of them could have saved the baby’s life - and they chose not to.
Connor was only seven when the baby died. And yet, at sixteen, the death of the baby still haunts him. And here he is, face to face with the same situation. There is a baby on a doorstep - and the recipient of this precious gift is complaining about having to care for another unwanted child.
He remembers the death of the baby who could have been his neighbor, or his baby brother, if anyone around him had showed an ounce of compassion. A horrible thought strikes him.
This baby could suffer the same fate.
Connor is already so close to death himself. He could be caught by juvies at any moment. If he gets caught, Risa and Lev could die, too.
But, if he doesn’t act now, so could the baby.
So he goes to save her. He confronts the recipient of the storked child with no real plan. He just wants to save the baby. He can’t let another baby die because of human selfishness and apathy.
Risa steps in, making up a lie that she and Connor are the baby’s parents, and tells the recipient that she’ll take her baby back. Risa is furious with Connor, and chews him out. What could make him do a stupid thing like that? The three of them could be caught at any moment, and a screaming, crying baby isn’t going to make escaping persecution any easier.
But Connor couldn’t let Didi die.
Unwind came out in 2007 - it celebrated its seventeenth birthday last November. Unwind is now so old that, if it was a teenager, it couldn’t be unwound itself! So why bring up a well-known scene from the very start of the book.
Like the book itself, it comes back to Neal Shusterman.
@nealshustermanreal - remember what you wrote. While The Schwa Was Here might have been your first critically acclaimed book, Unwind is why you’re here today - why you are anything to anyone. And while all your books (that I’ve read) have complex themes of morality, like the anecdote I just mentioned above, remember that Unwind is what most people who know you, know you from. They know about Baby Lassiter, and they know about baby Didi. They know that silence, apathy, and complacency does more harm than good - they know that because of you.
And yet, here you are. People are dying in droves, and the people that aren’t dying are being injured, having their homes destroyed, being forced to watch their loved ones die, or otherwise being terrorized. Palestinians are dying. And yet, you wait over two months to say anything about it. You wait until your book tour, promoting a graphic novel you wrote about another genocide, is over. You send out an email quietly, an email that only those who are subscribed to your newsletter will see. And your statement seems to be an afterthought, squeezed between a paragraph on how you approach presenting your books on tour, and links to where you can buy a signed copy of your new, shiny graphic novel about genocide. And this is what you say.
Most of your fans, at least on this platform, know of this email. We’ve all seen it. But I want to focus on that last part.
“I’ve taken a stand - by refusing to feed that mentality. The situation is tragic for everyone. We need empathy everywhere.”
You are being selfish. You wish to try to see why both Israel is justified in their slaughtering of Palestinians, and why Palestinians don’t deserve to be slaughtered. This is not a topic in which you can have your cake and eat it, too. Either you support the country who has proven that they will continue to murder Palestinians, destroy every aspect of their culture, and bomb every place that Palestinians cherished and loved, or you denounce that. Your refusal to acknowledge that the citizens of Palestine are the current targets in a genocide, to acknowledge that Israel will call anything or anyone they don’t like “Hamas” to slaughter them without criticism, and to acknowledge that all of this was the result of Israel wanting to destroy Palestine does not paint you as someone who is refusing to feed a black-and-white mentality. It paints you as someone who, because they aren’t being directly affected by this genocide, doesn’t think it’s their problem. That, by definition, is apathy.
This isn’t a perfect comparison by any means, but.
You are leaving Didi to die.
#arc of a scythe#scythe#the toll#thunderhead#neal shusterman#aoas#gleanings#unwind#unwholly#undivided#unbound#unsouled#connor lassiter#risa ward#lev calder#lev garrity#nealfanart
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Something I did for Mermay!
Trying to focus on emitting vibes and emotions through my pieces has been so challenging and gratifying.
Thanks everyone for sticking around in this art journey of mine ♥️
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“AHH … ohhh, ffffffFUCK-”
I think she likes it 😏
#tickle community#tickling#belly button tickling#unbound#belly tickling#tummy tickling#navel#tummy#belly#ticklish belly button#navel worship#belly button worship#belly worship#ticklish girl#tickle gifs#tickle gif#lickling
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So I started reading Unsouled
Argent: *Appears in the book for the first time*
Me: *Picks him up and puts him in the "Precious Bois" box*
Argent: *Abuses his sister (Grace) one page later*
Me: *Picks him up again and yeets him*
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Janus
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Unbound Monsters - Thermopod
Somehow, in the North Pole there lives a worm that can tunnel through ice using heat generated within its own body. Oh, also it’s absolutely gigantic. Pray you don’t cross paths with this monster, or better yet, avoid the frozen North.
#dnd#dungeond and dragons#dnd 5e#dnd 5ed#dnd 5edition#5e#dnd community#ttrpg#tabletop games#rpg#homebrew#dnd monster#monster#dnd enemy#enemy#unbound#thermopod#ice#worm#giant worm#fire worm
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Unbound 3/3 - Escaping Helgen
≤Part 1/3 <Part 2/3
I have been captured by the Empire and sentenced to death alongside the Stormcloak rebels. We were taken to Helgen, but before I could be executed a dragon appeared and attacked the town. I need to find some way to escape.
> Skyrim Quest series
#skyrim#tes#elder scrolls#skyrim screenshots#skyrim quest#unbound#fort helgen#skyrim quest series#ralof#my screenshots#ralof of riverwood
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Speaking strictly from personal experience, don’t trust wizard with gold. They will literally 200 spells scrolls if left unsupervised.
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In English, we say, "Reality."
In TES, we say, "Legends don't burn down villages."
#alduin out here giving everyone a reality check#that awkward moment when a DRAGON interrupts your execution#ulfric stormcloak#dragons#alduin#unbound#the elder scrolls#tes#skyrim#lol#meme#in english
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The way he looks at him 🥹
#the witcher#the witcher netflix#the witcher season 3#the witcher season 3 vol 1#jaskier#geralt of rivia#jaskier and geralt#geralt and jaskier#jaskier x geralt#geralt x jaskier#geraskier#3x02#Unbound
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Ah yes, the hardest starter choice to ever be made...
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ᰔᩚ connor lassiter x reader, fluff, established relationship, domestic stuff, lovey dovey soft connor, deviates a bit from canon, ooc! connor probably, connor and risa aren’t together here, set after undivided
wc: 726 words
connor never thought he’d have a home after the events that spiraled in his life. he never thought he’d have a place of comfort again, a place where he could rest and let his worries plague him another day. his younger self so desperately longed for a place where he was safe from his thoughts, where he could just lay in peace.
connor wasn’t dumb; he knew the effect he and risa had on the world. he knew their influence stretched far and wide. he was a world renowned figure, and yet he wanted nothing more than a nice place to call home. he wasn’t by any means greedy, he just wanted to disappear with his family after the march in washington. but he couldn’t, not when he met you.
you, who was so sweet, sweeter than the sugar he could digest. you, who didn’t see him as the akron awol, but as a normal boy who was scared; a boy who was scared of being unwound, a boy who just wanted to live. you, who so sweetly made a home in his heart and stayed there, forever holding his heart in your darling hand. you, who with your honeyed words and loving gaze, sent him into a frenzy and made him fall for you, fall for someone who loved him farther than their own soul could reach, farther than space itself.
connor made a home for himself with you. he found someone who looked at him with stars in their eyes, love and adoration as clear as day. he loved you so deeply, he’d rather get unwound again than let a single thing hurt you. he cherished the moments the two of you had, whether it was good or bad.
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“hey! the flour doesn’t go in there,” you said, or more like shouted to connor, playfully shoving him. you were making brownies together, something you both enjoyed. though, you enjoyed it more than connor as baking was your soon to be profession.
“sorryy,” connor said, though by his giggles you could tell he wasn’t sorry at all.
connor was glad he could make these sort of memories with you, memories where the both of you were having fun. things were normal, a normal connor loved when it came to you.
“sure sure whatever, just come help me mix these ingredients and don’t try anything silly this time,” you seriously tried to say, but he could hear the smile in your words. you then continued on with prepping everything, even with connor trying to occasionally distract you.
once you had finished putting the brownies in the oven, you felt connor hug you from behind. his hug enveloped you, making you feel safe and warm in his embrace.
“are you tired? i’m tired,” connor asked you while putting his head on your shoulder.
the weight of his head on your shoulder and his arms wrapped around your waist only added to the comfort you felt. it all felt overwhelmingly domestic, though you welcomed it with open arms.
“mhm,” you whispered out, barely audible, even when you knew you weren’t tired at all. connor melted you like putty in his arms, not a single thought being able to form besides how loving he felt.
with your confirmation, he led you to the couch, where you both got comfortable and just held each other. he laid you on top of him, while his hand was running softly through your hair. roland’s arm laid around your waist, occasionally tightening its hold on you.
“i love you more than you know, love you more than the earth loves the moon, more than the stars wish for the night sky. i’d bring down the stars to you, if you so wished,” connor whispered into the silence. it felt more as if he was speaking to himself rather than you, as if he was reassuring himself of his love for you or your love for him, or maybe both.
“i hope in every lifetime, i remember your scent, your eyes, your smile, everything. i swear we’ll always find each other again.”
connor cherished moments such as these: where he could hold you in his arms without a single worry going through his head.
#unwind#unwholly#unbound#unsouled#unwind series#connor lassiter#x reader fluff#fluff#connor lassiter x reader#neal shusterman#unwind x reader
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