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elpisays · 2 years

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hero, (accidentally) hiding in vampire's (supposedly) abandoned castle

“Did you really think you were the only one here?”

Hero stopped, their body going perfectly still.

The room was overtaken with darkness, oddly heavy in that full-moon light. Through open windows the wind crept in like a warning whistle, sending chills down Hero’s spine. They must have imagined that voice. Heard too many local tales today. Could they forget to close the windows?

Shakily, Hero went up to figure out the mechanics of the centuries-old wooden frames. They tried to pull them down, but the damn thing would-

“Moving into someone’s home without their consent, that wasn’t very polite of you, was it?”

This time, the tense voice was coming from behind their back. Hero felt something heavy drop in their chest.

“Turn around.”

Hero did, their knees weakening from dizziness. Vampire stood inches away, all skin, and startling blue eyes. His face did not look old, like the tales said, perhaps only a few years older than Hero’s.

“Ah, what happened?” he asked, tracing the ragged scar on their left cheek, going all the way to the jaw.

Hero swallowed hard. “Nothing, really.”

“I don’t like being lied to.”

“Just a… bad day to pick up a fight.”

His fingers, pale and smooth, were pressing the skin around the nasty mark. The touch was burning their skin alive.

Hero pressed against the window ledge even more. Their breath hitched when the Vampire cupped their cheek with his palm, as if to see how much the mortal skin could take.

“Please, I’ll-” Hero groaned. “I’ll make it up. I wasn’t aware-”

“Why’d you stay in the only room with a cross then?”

“...What?”

“What did I say about being lied to?” Vampire tightened his grip.

“Fine! I- I was afraid in case the tales they say- about you- were true.”

Vampire chuckled and let them go. “Touché.”

Hero fell to their knees, breathing heavily. The moon was casting its light on their forehead, shining with sweat.

Vampire reached for their arms as if to embrace when the world swirled around them and Hero found themselves on the same floor, but in a different, grander room. Higher ceiling, fancy finishing touches, all that jazz. Inhabited, too.

Vampire saw them staring at the balcony doors and made a tsk sound.

“I’m afraid no one knows I’m still alive. And I don’t plan to change that.”

He circled Hero, taking his time.

Their memory shot back to the tales he kept hearing in town, of disappearing young people, of corpses with throats massacred. Everyone knew vampires were monsters.

Hero’s hands were shaking now, eyes on the ground.

“My, my,” he murmured, “What will I do with you now, dear?”

“I…” they broke off, their voices embarrassingly frail. “I promise, I wouldn’t tell anyone.”

“You wouldn’t?”

He stopped now. His hand grasped their neck from behind. It was vulnerable, their throat on display. Hero could practically feel his eyes finding just the right spot to bite his teeth in. Vampire noticed and faintly smiled.

“This handsome face of yours might convince regular people, but you’d have to try harder for me.”

Hero felt their throat go dry. “Please.”

Vampire only raised his brews.

“I will leave town at once. Go far away. Change my name. Whatever you want, I’ll do it. Just please- let me go alive.”

“You are quite convincing. And distracting. Whatever I wanted, was it?”

They dared to nod. Vampire’s piercing gaze considered their profile, his palm holding their jaw with two fingers.

He titled his head. “I didn’t have entertainment for a century.”

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bixels · 5 months

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Baffled.

#personal #not art #like how do you arrive at this conclusion #what beliefs?#the man may be a total grouch but if there’s one thing he HATES it’s Japanese nationalism #Japanese nationalists famously HATE his work especially the wind rises which criticizes imperial Japan and calls out the invasion of China #don’t ask for context on the first part of the tag I’m not answering

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andi-o-geyser · 9 months

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a full SAGA of chaos choices at the diner in the centre of your mind

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rooniearts · 28 days

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POV: you opened tumblr dot com on april 1st 2024

#boop #april fools 2024 #april fools #video #art #HEEEEEEELLLLLPPPP!!!!!!#also hi hello im sorry to the people who stuck around for 2 years and this being the first thing i post after disappearing.#i wont promise i'll be better tho sorry </3 #flashing #ask to tag

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sabertoothwalrus · 4 months

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phoenix you gotta law something

#she's asking him for money #I played the first trilogy last year and yet this is my first time drawing them :]#aa #ace attorney #phoenix wright #maya fey #my art

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malinaa · 5 months

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if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

#imagine you're a boy who's going to die. you're in love with the girl you've been watching from afar. you know your fate.#you just want to help her‚ but then there's the announcement and she's here in front of you‚ kissing you‚ risking her life for you and you #think‚ i could live and i could love. you think she loves you when she hands you the berries‚ when she puts them in her mouth.#then you both survive and you go back home and nothing is real anymore. you have nothing. no family. no friends. no love. just an empty #house. a drunk for a neighbor. the love of your life walking into somebody else's arms. you think‚ i survived the games. i could survive #this. and you also think‚ i should've bit down on those berries‚ should've felt the juice burst before i died.#and then the third quarter quell announcement rings in your ears and you think‚ she will live and i will die as i should have in the first #place. the girl you love kisses you on the beach and somewhere you heart stirs and your mind revolts and you savor every touch she has ever #given to you‚ in front of the cameras and off. because you are a tribute and you are always being watched and snow's presence looms and #you think‚ i know she cares. but you get taken. you get drugged. you get tortured‚ your mind altered. the girl is a mutt‚ a murderer. she's #everything you despise‚ your mind stirs. your heart revolts. you gain more awareness but cannot distinguish reality from fiction and you #have never known katniss' love. the war ends. you heal. you come home. you plant primrose for her. years down the line‚ you grow in love #more than you thought possible. but some days‚ you cannot tell fiction from reality so you ask the love of your life‚ you love me.#real or not real? and she says‚ real‚ and kisses you.#and you sigh and kiss her back and revel in this. a home. a life. a love.#lit #the hunger games #everlark #otp: real or not real?#katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #text #tais toi lys #thgpost

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oobbbear · 4 months

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I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

#bearz rambling tag #no it’s not really possible to let everyone who uses this term to change #because as far as I know this is the most common word with use on Chinese websites #I didn’t know that pairing are called ‘ship’ here #like why would I even know that #‘ship’ makes zero sense to me #it took me a while to learn the fandom language people speak here #it’s hard #give people time #shipping culture is very different too #Like on Chinese site you HAVE to clarify the Top and the Bottom of this ship in the ship name #it is very very important to them #people who like the same ship but with different Top Bottom preference will fight till no end #imagine how confused I was when I first got here #where there’s no top bottom differences #it’s not really a smut thing #it’s more a dynamic thing #AxB and BxA is very different #oh I can talk so much about the differences on fandom cultures #if ya are interested in more please feel free to ask #it’s very interesting to me #I wanna talk about it

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captain-hen · 8 days

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#evan buckley but it's just him progressively getting more unhinged over eddie

#911edit #911 #911 abc #*#evanbuckleyedit #eddiediazedit #buddiedit #buddie #tbh if you ask me the 'first girl you slept with' line is actually worse than the sprained ankle #like what an absolutely bonkers thing to say

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nezhanetwork · 8 months

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based on falseknees' comic :)

#happy three months in the fandom to meee! :D #grian #goodtimeswithscar #desert duo #hermitcraft #life series #3rd life #last life #double life #limited life #my art #i thought about grian and mumbo at first #but gtws and grian have a little bit more universes to choose from :)#← before you guys start asking about this

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astralpenguin · 1 year

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self care is writing a fic that you’re literally the sole target audience for

#nobody was asking for a spn pmmm crossover fic focusing on claire at 14 #who by this point has already been manipulated into agreeing to something without knowing all the terms and conditions first #and it was awful and the worst day of her life #so when kyubey approaches her she doesn't go for it #but the people around her do and so claire gets to watch people she loves die horribly AGAIN #like there is nothing in spn canon that contradicts any of this #but literally nobody is wanting a fic like this to exist #nobody except for me #so i guess i have to do everything myself around here #el talks

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sluttypatrickstar · 2 months

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#james somerton #hbomberguy #had to add the second bit apparently je says he's gonna donate it to the plagiarism fund but he once again didn't even ask harry first

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tinystepsforward · 2 months

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idk how many of you remember this but a few years ago tumblr ran a universally panned ad campaign for (us american) pride month that went "the gayest place on the internet".

well someone planning that campaign dropped in to ask the queer automatticians for advice on that and universally me and the other trans people involved were like "don't do it. i am so serious. don't do it. people on tumblr won't understand that it wasn't automattic who instituted the porn ban, or they will, but they'll recognize that automattic hasn't done anything, hands tied or not, to reverse it. nobody will like this. it will be a disaster." and they thanked us for our thoughts and went ahead with it anyway and then had to do retrospectives about how badly it went and were like "we just didn't know" and [gestures] yeah [edit: i think the person who rbed saying it was queerest place on the internet was right, my brain is fried, sorry! and that's... even worse lmao]

#tony muses #hello new followers. for clarity if you are expecting intense amounts of goss about tumblr specifically i am not your person #when automattic first acquired tumblr they asked queer staff who wanted to transfer over to something that was dear to a lot of us #and i specifically did not want to shit where i eat so to speak #which was the right choice. i just have other info about automattic more generally

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nohtora · 3 months

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chúc mừng năm mới ! hope this lunar new year is one full of good luck and good health for everyone !!

( i wanted to have a bit of fun with patterns with this one - the designs are inspired by encaustic tiles i've seen around vietnam, with a bit of tết flavour :D )

#lunar new year #vietnamese new year #year of the dragon #tet nguyen dan #tet giap thin #chuc mung nam moi #digital art #digital illustration #dragon #artists on tumblr #nohtora art #this one's a lil special bc the first zodiac illustration i did for these yearly c0mms was 2012's year of the dragon :')#which i did for free bc i was a kid who just learnt how to use a drawing tablet lmao #it looked horrendous don't ask #anyways jAZZ HANDS

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elsa-fogen · 1 month

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First day in Hell | Part 1

Next >>

insert joke about that 50k animation

is that a bird? is that a plane? No! That's Elsa is starting new comic! That's the third one and it's finally pure radiorose AHHAHAAHA well almost. Don't tell me that your friendship with your bestie didn't start with them trying to murder and eat you?????? Impossible (i don't have friends)

I have such a funny twist prepared ohh this is gonna be good!

I need to draw human Alastor at last! But i'm... afraid??? idk-

next part soon?

#alastor hazbin hotel #hazbin #hazbin hotel #alastor the radio demon #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #alastor #the radio demon #radio demon #rosie and alastor #alastor and rosie #hazbin rosie #rosie hazbin hotel #rosie #sudden ask lol #hazbin comic #platonic radiorose #radiorose #First day in Hell | Hazbin comic

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whosherefor-thechaos · 13 days

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incredible translation of sheeesh thank you google

#german stuff #like listen idk how i would translate sheesh but my first thought would not have been meine güte #or even my second or third thought #actually sheesh is probably best left untranslated #also don't ask me why youtube is offering to translate to german in the first place even tho i've set the app to english #rhys's pieces

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peach-pot · 1 year

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(if you don’t mind reblogging this post, that would be groovy ^_^)

#first and last time I ask people to reblog a post on the post lol #hannah talks sometimes #this will be my ‘general tumblr population poll’#and then I can compare it to my blog one #it’ll still definitely be like. my side of tumblr because it’s starting on my blog but. eh you get it #asexual #aromantic #polls #aspec #arospec #acespec #asexuality #aromanticism #lgbt

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