'Ill-Starred Love / The Good in Him' by Zoltan Simon (from Star Wars Celebration: Chicago Art)

“Star Wars has so many strong motifs and archetypes, I always find inspiration in them. The idea of this image came into my mind when I was standing in a beautiful garden at Lake Como last September, at the shooting location of the wedding scene from Attack of the Clones. The picture catches the dark and inevitable future in a beautiful and happy moment: Darth Vader’s mask building up like a cracked glass coffin around Padmé’s face. From the opposite point of view, if we try to see through Vader’s mask, we can see the love and the good in him — the good that never left him.” 

there's something about just being discarded that adds another, very nice layer to whump. The despair? The struggle to stay alive, to patch their wounds, to survive? Getting saved at the very last minute, likely by a complete stranger?

-Whumpee is interrogated and then dumped in the middle of nowhere once Whumper has the information they need

-Whumpee is severely beaten and left to die after crossing the wrong person

-Whumpee is experimented on and then thrown out when they're no longer useful

-Whumpee works for Whumper, and is nearly killed on a mission then abandoned by their boss for failing

Russingon and Angbang

(Russingon was answered here!)

Oh wait a minute— did Angbang actually get a near perfect score? 🤣

Okay, but Angbang. I don't actually write it nor am I active on that side of fandom, but let me tell you about how this ship gets the most irl air time from me, talking about Tolkien to normies. In fact, as recent as a week ago, I talked about the glory of Sauron as a literary villain on a train ride that I'm sure half the passengers didn't ask for but they had to listen to anyway. 😂

Sauron—and yes, I do call him that because I like my villains to have earned their titles—is hands down the best, most compelling villain ever written. He is my top example of what Lawful Evil looks like. You can tell he is intelligent, and with that intelligence comes his cunning, the skilled and organised way with which he goes about things, how he plans things and is methodical with their execution. The fact that he was originally a Maia of Aulë is even also very interesting, because you know that group is one that values skill and the creation of things. Morgoth, meanwhile, kind of brute forces his way through everything. He has an idea of what Arda is supposed to be, and kind of stomps and tantrums his way to seeing it all come to being. Despite these differences, and how I know for a fact that Sauron is smarter than Morgoth (lol), Sauron was loyal to Morgoth until the end. Even when Morgoth had grown weak, having carelessly given himself to Arda, and even weak enough for Sauron to have been arguably stronger than him, Sauron never attempted to usurp him. He might have been disappointed by him, but I believe that was more because had Sauron had his way, there would have been better ways for Morgoth to achieve his goals that would not have weakened him the way his choices did. Had Morgoth been more successful with his marring of Arda and had not been captured by the Valar, Sauron would have continued to be his loyal lieutenant. There is something compelling about this kind of loyalty, especially from someone so intelligent, cunning, manipulative, and all the things that Sauron is.

Also, I like to joke around that Sauron is a Whore™ and he probably has the most number of ships in the fandom (we know silvergifting is super popular, and of course the seduction of Ar-Pharazôn and Númenor, he also probably seduced the Nazgûl lbr, and maybe a random hot Rohirrim, you can't convince me otherwise), but I do believe Morgoth was the "love of his life"—or whatever equates to it among, you know, evil beings with evil ends. I don't actually think about Angbang strictly in a romantic sense, although yes, in fact there is a lot of parallels. I dunno! I kid you not when I say I sit and think about Angbang at least a few times a year.

i thought i had posted this here woops

Rei Gets Got Drabble + Headcanons

Eiden hadn't expected his first-aid classes to actually come in handy in Klein.

They'd been required for a couple of his jobs, just a quick course on what he was most likely to encounter, but with all the healing magic and essence transfusions he hadn't really been practicing.

But when he went into Rei's room to find him having a seizure... Well, thank God Eiden hadn't slept through that one.

As it was right now, Rei's head was cradled on Eiden's lap, a pillow laid on top of his knees to ensure he wouldn't hurt himself. He couldn't note when the seizure started, especially since he was already in the throes of it when he found him, but he remembered that staying with them and talking calmly was important, so he did that. It was mostly meaningless platitudes - telling him he was ok and that Eiden was here - but he didn't really know what else to say.

Father was perched on the bed above, cooing frantically and ruffling his feathers. Eiden imagined the bird was as terrified as he was, but he didn't have time to comfort the animal. As soon as Rei's shaking ended, he had to turn him on his side.

Soon enough, the shaking stopped, and Eiden rolled him over. Rei couldn't help but groan, and Eiden shushed him gently, rubbing one hand up and down his shoulder. "It's ok, Rei, it's ok." He murmured helplessly, "Let me know when you're back with us. You're doing so well, just keep breathing."

"Where..."

"You're at the mansion, you were staying the night because it was too late for you to set off home. I found you seizing in your room - I know you still call it a guest room but it's basically yours by now, we should make it feel more like it belongs to you... Oh! When Yakumo and I were at the market earlier I found some little decorations that I think are right up your alley! Tomorrow I'll ask Aster for some money and we'll go get you kitted out..."

Eiden kept rambling, even as one of Rei's hands snuck up and grabbed a hold of Eiden's. The scientist held on tightly, barely listening, and Eiden lightly stroked his thumb on the back of his palm. Eiden's other hand went up to his ear - not the one with the gemstone - and lightly traced it in a soothing manner. He could see the twitch in Rei's lips, but it was more of a soft, grounding kind of tickle. The kind that let him know that even if he wasn't listening, Eiden was still there.

"You know, I'm surprised with all your sciencey ways you haven't joined Blade on his Tickle Experiments yet." Eiden mused, "I would have thought that'd be right up your alley, taking note of where everyone's sensitive and torturing them." Father cooed in agreement, and Rei shot a half-hearted glare his way. "Ha! See! Father agrees with me."

"It's ... hardly the most interesting of experiments." Rei's voice was slightly slurred, but he seemed to be coming back to himself.

"I'm sorry, have you seen some of the people around here? Edmond has very interesting reactions, thank you very much, and no one's been able to get Kuya yet so that's uncharted territory! Come on, are you telling me you're not even a little interested?"

"... Maybe. It might... be fun..."

"There you go! Tomorrow we'll kit out your room and Blade and yourself can go on a tickle rampage. I'll make sure everyone is in, just for you~ Just leave Quincy and Blade, they're not ticklish at all, believe me I tried!"

Rei giggled quietly, and Eiden moved his fingers down to his neck, just tickling enough that the giggles kept coming. "Blade will probably want to get you though. He doesn't like missing data."

"Neither do I."

They stayed like that for a while, rambling conversations and soft giggles filling the silence. And if, when Rei was feeling better, he pulled Eiden's hand down to his side, neither of them would tell a soul.

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🖤 Listen Rei needs a fucking hug ok my man is the nu carnival developers punching bag

🖤 Anyway, Rei for me is a pretty even switch. And a bitch. But anyway he'll lee and he'll ler, and he'll never seem particularly enthusiastic about either unless you can get him in a really soft state.

🖤 As a lee I think he'd be mostly into comfort tickles. The soft gentle kind, where his ler will stop it the slightest indication of it being too much. I don't think he's too ticklish, which does help that, but he has very strong boundaries that you have to be very careful not to cross. He's had his lines crossed too often before. Also Father will kill you.

🖤 Probably has really soft and really cute laughter - a little wheezy if you get him fully going, but it's just very low and very sweet.

🖤 Would probably be ticklish in the normal places. I like to headcanon that the gemstone locations are very sensitive, but aside from that one ear he's not hyper ticklish or anything, just at a solid middling point. I think his preferred locations for tickles are ears, neck and probably his back - the kind of locations that are good for cuddling and gentle tickling.

🖤 As a ler, he's the experimental ler. One proper wrecking to find out where your sensitive spots are, and then subsequent wreckings are whenever he finds something new to get a rise out of you. A hairbrush, a feather, a ribbon - he must record all the reactions to find the perfect tickle tool.

🖤 A teasy bugger because the way he teases doesn't sound like your normal teases - he just comments on sensitivity like an actual scientist and it's really unnerving and for some reason that makes it tickle more?? Weirdo. I love him.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: James Bond (Movies), Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, SPECTRE (2015) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Bond/Q Additional Tags: Angry Sex, Banter, Humor, Porn with Feelings, Shameless Smut Summary:

Q has shagged James Bond nine times and his life is a disaster.

(or: Q has a bad day, Bond has a thing for Q's jumpers and the night goes exactly as expected, for the most part)

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when our hands touch, my world becomes peachy pink 🌸

send a ‘🌙’ in my askbox for a mini archive moodboard!

KFJDJDJD IS THAT WHAT LIL ANGE LOOKS LIKE??? AND CASUAL BATTLER IM SCREAMING

Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies), James Bond - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond) Additional Tags: 00Q Reverse Bang, Getting Together, Getting to Know Each Other, Post-Skyfall, Q took lessons in urban camouflage, Bond is curious Summary:

In the weeks after Skyfall, after the dust settles, James Bond becomes curious about his bright new Quartermaster. Over the next year, James finds himself learning more about the new Q, but the more he learns, the more he wants to know. Along the way, he might even learn a thing or two about himself.

if i see a single one of you pissed that your faves canceled an event or a con appearance because they're striking for fair wages then imma come for you in your sleep 🔪🔪🔪

(direct that fury where it belongs: AMPTP and the execs)

And Dazai is like: omg how did he figure it out?!?!?!?

Hey guys here's another comic I drew completely by myself with a punchline that I had planned from the first panel!!!

It would be so silly if I tagged @carpisuns / @marimbles in this, considering I have never met her before and she had nothing to do with the creation of this comic. 👍