#hence this story
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will you write something vampire themed for spooky season?
The coffin was luxurious, as far as coffins went. The protagonist had half-expected just a plain wood box, scratchy and full of splinters. They supposed, if they had to die, they could at least do so in style.
It didn't really make them feel better.
And it didn't make the coffin fit two people any better either.
"Stop squirming," the secret love of their life snapped. "You're just going to get us more stuck."
"I don't think it's possible to get more stuck." Their voice was only a little, reasonably, hysterical. "We're buried alive in a bloody coffin!"
The secret love of their life looked awful beneath them. Pallid, even in the crowded gloom of their shared grave. They felt clammy and cold beneath the protagonist's limbs.
The protagonist swallowed. They tried to stop squirming. There were no comfortable positions.
The love of their life hissed between their teeth with irritation, and if the protagonist could see properly, they were sure that a terrifying and wrathful and gorgeous glare would be pointed in their direction.
"I'm sorry," the protagonist said. For the squirming, sure, but mostly for everything else. For somehow getting them into this mess. For being the last idiot that the love of their short life would ever see. For not knowing how to save either of them.
"You should stop talking and conserve your air."
"You should stop talking and conserve your air," the protagonist mumbled. They closed their eyes. They tried not to panic. The panic closed in on them on every side, just like the too close suffocating padded walls, and the steady weight of six or so feet of packed soil crushing them on all sides.
"Someone's going to rescue us," the love of their life said. "Your friends - someone - will figure out where we are."
"Coffin. My first guess too."
"They'll get us out." The growl in their friend's voice was almost inhuman. Quite impressive.
The protagonist bit down hard on their lip, and the rather unhelpful response of 'before or after we die from the lack of oxygen? Because, you know, I read that people can survive five hours locked in a coffin. Tops. If they're not hyperventilating. But who's hyperventilating! I'm not hyperventilating! Are you?'
Their friend drew a sharp breath. Then they squirmed, hypocritically, before managing to place cool hands on either side of the protagonist's whirling brain.
"Easy," they murmured, abruptly far more gentle. "You're okay. You're going to be okay. I'm not - I won't let anything bad happen to you."
The protagonist felt tears prick the corners of their eyes. Absurd.
One of their friend’s thumbs grazed over their lip, wiping away the bead of blood there.
"Match your breathing to mine," their friend murmured, voice a little hoarse and trying-to-keep-it-together. "Concentrate on me."
The protagonist did their best. Their friend breathed very slowly, admirably calm really, given the circumstances.
"I won't hurt you," their friend said. "I love you. I won't."
"It's not you I'm worried about. Wait - you love me?"
It was impossible to see the love of their life's face, and really, a coffin was the worst place for a confession. Because the protagonist would very much have liked to have seen their face. At least if they were hanging over a lava pit, the protagonist would have been able to see their face, and make a judgment on if they meant that platonically or romantically.
God. They hated their brain.
Their friend didn't say anything and the silence was surely almost as agonising as dying. Almost. They brushed a tear away from the protagonist's cheek, feather-light.
"More than anything," their friend said. "Now shut. up. Please. And please, please, stop moving."
The protagonist shut up. Somehow. They rested their head against their friend's chest, letting the knowledge of that confession fill them with warmth, or try to.
At least they were dying in a coffin with someone they loved. Who loved them back. Someone's whose heart was so...
The protagonist stopped. It was a trick. A mistake. Something. But it felt, beneath their ear, like their friend's heart wasn't beating. Actually, when the protagonist really thought about it, now that their breathing was more or less steady, even in the squashed space they couldn't hear their friend's breathing at all. They couldn't feel it against their cheek and...
They didn't think the love of their life had always been so cold.
"Why." The protagonist resisted the urge to shift again. "Why do you think you're going to hurt me? Worst you're going to do is elbow me in the face?"
Their friend was silent a second time.
"Right?" The protagonist pressed.
"Someone will find us. They'll get us out. It's not a problem. It won't be a problem."
"What...what won't be a problem?" But the protagonist, with a dreadful twist in their stomach, knew. It should have been obvious, maybe, in the last twenty four hours.
The stomach bug. The dark glasses. The cringing from the sunlight.
"I won't hurt you." A mantra. Not a reassurance; a mantra, a plea. "I love you. I won't hurt you. You're going to be fine."
Five hours, suddenly, seemed like a lifetime.
The coffin was luxurious, as far as coffins went. Excellent quality. Top notch.
Nothing else, after all, would keep in a newly turned and starving vampire locked up.
"Shit," the protagonist whispered.
And that about summed up their current predicament.
#vampires#story#writing#I am currently reading the short story anthology Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite. I'm having a good time#my story was partially inspired by Heidi Heilig's short story 'The Boy and the Bell'#and her interesting use of the old Victorian tradition of fitting coffins with bells in case someone was buried alive. Onwards.#Also Interview with the vampire is great. Coffin sharing for the win.#i don't know man I'm just thinking about coffins now#hence this story#Anyway. Love a vampire in all the seasons.#love a vampire enternally#short story
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patchwork canary.
a comic about two girls, fate, and a powerful man who felt entitled to something that wasn’t his to own.
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#cw: blood and implication of gore#lgbt#sapphic#comic#lesbian#nea and nary are meant for each other#its just that halfway through i realised a slowburn type romance suited them more#hence the fact they dont do any kissie smoochie stuff in this#not that physicality is the only way you can show romantic love#but i did just want to mention it in case it wasnt clear#theyre not /just/ friends basically#horror#just a little#id love it if this became my brand#slightly unsettling queer romantic stories#i struggled with this one quite a bit#just perfectionism#pushing and pulling to see where i could go with it#i hope you enjoyed it#and as always#thank you for reading#stillindigo art
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M'lady, doth this harlot bother thee?
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#yu ziyuan#wang lingjiao#jinzhu#yinzhu#I just want to take a moment to shine a spotlight on YZY's maids.#I fully admit to forgetting about them until I was looking up female characters in mdzs for the Six AU and saw their names.#For characters who play a small role in the story I sure do rotate the little morsels of info we know about them in my head.#We know they came from the Yu sect along with YZY and described as 'young women' so did they likely were young when they left#And we know that YZY favours them immensely (to the point she lets them speak a lot more freely than she does her own children)#And they in turn are extremely loyal to herand very skilled fighters.#So what's up with that dynamic? Who are they to her? Who are they to each other? Who are they as individuals?#My theory is that they were initially servant girls YZY took in and trained (hence the whip proficiency)#I also very much love the idea of this double standard; that YZY has these surrogate 'children' she favours over her own#to shadow JFM's affection for WWX (child who is not his own).#Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli just keep losing!!!#Anyways I just think we should hoist jinzhu and yinzhu up more. I think they have minor character swag and potential.
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actually maybe folklore is an album about looking back on all the things that have made you go from a wild, innocent, open child to a damaged, pained, often duplicitous adult
#hence ‘our coming of age has come and gone’ on track 15#a song about all the trauma that pulled you apart as the original closer#and a song about withdrawing from the things that are killing you accepting all that pain and finding peace with your lover#while excavating that trauma for art#as the real closer#that’s why seven - this is me trying - peace - hoax - the lakes kind of sum up the entire story#of the album#folklore#the lakes#mirrorball#this is me trying#seven#hoax
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@pscentral event 21: growth
↳ rebelcaptain + long story short
#jyn erso#cassian andor#pscentral#star wars#star wars andor#rogue one#edits**#swedit#swcreators#swcreations#rogueoneedit#jynersoedit#taylor swift#tslyricsedit#long story short I SURVIVED :(#i survived but they didn't#green doesn't just symbolize jealousy babyyy it also symbolizes growth#hence me using it also i just love green#what a color#honestly there are so many lyrics from this song for them#these are just the ones that worked for this gifset#for instance i thought about putting the 'your nemeses' line in there and show krennic getting obliterated by the death star#but it didn't work out#down to the wire lmao#i have done a gifset with this song before but it is not good lmao#also you can see the exact moment where i gave up#its 12:27 and i need to post this
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DEATH COMES FOR EVERYONE ELSE, WHY NOT ME?
it's merlin time babyyyyy
Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages, Stephen Knight
I am slowly re assembling the outlines. of an idea I had several years ago focusing on Merlin that plays around with an awareness of themes and hauntings with a much heavier horror atmosphere. also a kind of timeloop. I'm still throwing around designs, but right now I'm really into the visuals that Camelot (2011) went with wrt to their version of Merlin
bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost
#knights knights knights!#this merlin centric horror idea i have is much more grounded in later arthurian cycles than earlier ones hence the use of merlin as#the primary name. but in the story that plays with the earlier versions of all the figures i'll probably go with myrddin. etc
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Sachi
Commissioned by @inusmasha for @mustardyellowsunshine
Enjoy, Robin! :)
#inuvember2023#day 30#quillwing717’s sachi#hello robin pls enjoy as I enjoyed making this#I’m not sure if this fic has any fanart#well if there wasn’t any now there is#not a specific scene ok thanks#inukag#inuyasha au#inuyasha and kagome#kagome#mustardyellowsunshine#kat draws#funny story so I needed some ahem feet reference because feet are hard ok and so I went looking for them on Pinterest AND THERE WEREN’T NONE#if you look up feet or foot or female feet or male feet on Pinterest it won’t give it to you like dang ok#I had to write whole sentences to get the right refs#but then I thought I should follow Pinterest’s advice#hence socks#anyways it was a good laugh thanks
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*wakes up in a cold sweat* the reason the black rose arc had to be forgotten by everyone is because its foundational tenet operated on giving the Brides agency to protest against their role in the dueling system and seek to leave it, further exemplified by its final shot being that of anthy's complicitness in the dueling game. the black rose arc gives a 'voice to the voiceless' and exploits their rage against their lives into rage against the Bride - which though it furthers ohtori's system of oppression (the dueling game is built upon exploiting the internal conflicts of the duelists after all), the methodology of giving 'voices' to the Brides by allowing them to Speak Their Mind within the framework of 'self improvement' via seeking out therapy is shown to be antithetical to ohtori academy as a whole because true self actualization of the bride will mean the end of ohtori academy as a system. in this essay i will
#okay so i understand this may not make sense but i think of the show as being in four distinct parts#the stucouncil arc is the duelist's story and their motivations#the black rose arc is the *bride's* side of the story and their motivations#the car arc is the culmination of duelist and bride#the final apocalypse saga is the prince-princess-witch trinity#the duelist's version of the story is the only version that is allowed to be remembered by the world at large because *they* hold the power#the brides are only allowed to exist in relation to their duelists#hence why the black rose arc needed to be forgotten#rgu#revolutionary girl utena#tenjou utena#himemiya anthy#utenanthy#therapyvator arc#black rose saga
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okay so i was thinking of a joke earlier about how in DPDC Amity Park's slogan "a great place to live" is not only city propaganda but also the city lording it over the rest of America for being normal. But then I remembered that, despite how many DCU Cities with heroes in it there are, the amount of cities in America without heroes still far outnumber the amount of cities in America WITH heroes.
So I did a little digging so the joke would still land. Something most heroes have in common is that they operate in major cities. What makes a major city? I found that the general consensus is that the population is roughly over or around a million. THEN I looked up the populations of cities in the DCU that I thought of off the top of my head. So Gotham, Metropolis, Starling City, Central City, Jump City. All of them ranked up to millions in population (most of them were in the tens of millions).
Amity Park's wikipedia describes it as being similar to specifically Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco.
Philadelphia's Population: 1.576 million as of 2021
Chicago's Population: 2.697 million as of 2021
San Francisco: 815,201 as of 2021
Whiiich means that Amity Park if we take that from canon, is probably a major city. There are approximately 19,000 cities in America with probably less than a hundred that are major cities. Adding the DCU major cities wouldn't skew the data too much.
Which MEANS that I can make the joke that Amity Park's "great place to live" is not only just typical city propaganda, but also its Amity Park lording it over the other major cities for being one of the only major cities that doesn't have problems bad enough to warrant a superhero or a vigilante. Cue stage left the Fentons and Phantom :)
Amity Parkers were probably SO proud that they didn't need a superhero. They didn't have to worry about things like 'world ending threats' and 'super-powered individuals' and 'staggering property damage'. And then enter Fentons.
It also could be used as an excuse for why nobody took notice to Amity Park getting ghosts if folks like me aren't huge fans of the notion of a media blackout via Tucker, Technus, or the US Government. Or if you want to keep Amity Park as its urban city self. Amity Park's news on ghosts gets drowned out in a week because there's news on more popular, well-known cities going on every other day. The shit going on in Amity Park is every other major city's regular Tuesday and it gets filtered as such.
#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc#dpdc#plus amity suddenly going 'we have ghosts' could be seen as a case of city-wide FOMO finally hitting so nobody believes them#and thats if the belief of ghosts not being real is as strong as it is in dp canon#the media blackout could also be /city-induced/ too#where amity parkers are so proud of being 'normal' and 'not having superheros' that many of them try and deny the existence of Phantom#and the mayor and news sources themselves just. stubbornly refuse to let news of ghosts get out to the other cities#do you know how much shit they'll get?? they'll be a laughingstock!#gothamites would never leave them alone. neither would central city or the metropolitans or starling city or--#the other big cities will make fun of them :(#my new favorite hc that stemmed from this is that every major city in the dcu is rivaling with each other#there's a lot you can experiment with this idea imo lmao#this whole post sums up my writing and thinking process pr well tbh#this stemmed because im making a childhood friends au short story doc and wanted to avoid the typical tropes about how AP went undetected#from the rest of the US. bc. im not a fan of the media blackout idea via tucker/technus/gov and i wanted to keep AP an urban city#so i had to come up with something else#hence me looking into DCU cities and how many there are and realizing that there is a decent amount of other cities other than the main#popular ones and being DELIGHTED because then i could use that as an excuse for why amity went overlooked. bc there are many cities with#heroes in it. so its not surprising if another city gets a hero TOO. plus the news also focusing on more popular heroes and cities so again#the news of amity getting a hero gets drowned out by whatever new thing the JL or someone from the JL did that week
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Happy Holidays to Pep and the gang!
Pep: "..."
Pep: "Mrrp!"
Pep: "Niaga uoy ees ot deticxe ma I!!! Syadiloh yppah!!! Sdneirf olleh!!!"
Pep: "Kool emoc! Enoyreve rof staert gnikam yad lla ysub neeb ev'ew!"
Pep: "Olleh yas sdneirf ruo! Kcirb ,kool kool!"
Brick: *happy greeting squeak!*
Pep: "Enoyreve rof eikooc a edam ew! Kool!"
Pep: "Sdneirf, uoy rof tsuj eno laiceps a s'ereht dna!"
(Happy holidays to you too! Everyone can't be here right now, but I hope you guys enjoy a little bonus post for now, hehe)
#pizza tower#fake peppino#brick the rat#peppino and gus are here but I am not gonna tag them#also not gonna tag all the cookie characters#translation: “Hello friends!!! Happy holidays!!! I am excited to see you again!!!”#“We've been busy all day making treats for everyone! Come look!”#“Look look Brick! Our friends say hello!”#“Look! We made a cookie for everyone!”#“And there's a special one just for you friends!”#bonus story post#that'll be the tag for now#probably worth mentioning that this is a few months after where the current story is#hence cookies of Vigi and Pepperman#also probably too detailed for real cookies but I do not care#Pep is so talented he can do anything like detailed cookie art#and Brick too she helped#ALSO ALSO YOU CAN'T SEE IT#but Brick's sweater says 'Merry Cheesemas' and I need you to know this#okay enjoy the post I spent too long on making those cookies it's time for bed
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something i've unfortunately had to come to terms with and urge you all to keep in mind is that there is often no good faith conversation to be had with a zionist — these people are well aware that thousands of palestinians have been murdered in the past month, that the 1948 nakba was one of the most horrific displacements of a human population in history, that israel is currently carrying out ethnic cleansing with full endorsement from the united states — they simply don't care.
attempting to appeal to their sense of morality will not work when these people don't see palestinians as human beings; they have no moral conscience to speak of.
#palestine#usually i'm the loudest proponent of debate as you all well know but in cases like this theres just no amount of proof/evidence that will#change their minds i fear.. the israel propaganda is so laughable and yet some people are just . very very stupid#the only time i engage with zionist rhetoric is on tumblr where at least i can use my platform to show other people how to combat propagand#bc if theres one thing a zionist will be it is loud and wrong#hence why theyre still clinging desperately onto '40 beheaded babies' and other equally made up stories#so yes definitely do call out/dispute zionists where you can#but just remember which battles are worth it#i say this after engaging with one of the most braindead people i've ever seen on this website but c'est la vie !
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The Thai 🤝🏽 Taiwanese Communal Wardrobe item #1
Theory of Love ep 5:
En of Love: This is Love Story ep 1:
HIStory 4: Close to You ep 1 & 14:
My Secret Love ep 10:
Check Out ep 10:
Mama Gogo ep 10:
Kiseki: Dear to Me ep 9:
(all credit to @chickenstrangers for this one)
+ bonus not in a series but...
and...
#theory of love#en of love: this is love story#history 4: close to you#my secret love#my secret love the series#mama gogo#kiseki: dear to me#first kanaphan#the thai 🤝🏽 taiwanese communal wardrobe#<- it gets it's own special tag#we've crossed borders!#WE'VE BREACHED CONTAINMENT!#I'd been wondering if this might happen#and the scream I scrumt when chick (ken? kenstra? tran? anger?) told me#THANK YOU SO MUCH!#I figured I'd start a whole new list for clothes shared across these countries#hence this is number 1#let's find some more!#the thai communal wardrobe#huge thanks to the contributors - tagged in a reblog!#edited to add my secret love!#edited again to add check out!#edited again to add joong!
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guys andy got the xvx heart tattoo at their wedding!
#andy hurley#struggling to find a mm of tattoable skin to get something at the tattoo bar#both pics are cropped from mere's stories hence no link sorry if anyone is seeing this 5 years from now and needs the source#also relevant context is there was genuinely a tattoo bar at the wedding
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paul mccartney you're gay and that's final
for legal/ethical/moral/psychological/spiritual reasons this is a joke
#which could mean nothing. of course.#is this too long? yes. but i had like 10 other songs i mulled over adding so be grateful.#i might say fuck it and edit it and add them back in so dont bitch about it#anyway. yeah the title is a joke but i feel like an interesting story is told through some of these songs. i tried to only do songs im#convinced are at least partially about john. hence the waffling on other songs. there's a lot of songs that follow a similar theme but im#like. eh. dudes been married thrice and widowed who knows whats about who ykwim?#i could be convinced however. im easy like that.
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HEY YOU YOU SHOULD READ 17776
#17776#20020#superbowl#j.txt#posted this initially on my insta story hence slightly off text/picture positioning
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I also find it funny that fandom will only accept Lyanna being her non-conforming, wild self in the context of saying that Arya isn't meant to be pretty; Any other day we get back-to-back posts about how Lyanna is actually super traditionally feminine cause she sniffled at a song once, so she's actually more like Sansa. Instead of constantly speaking on Arya and Lyanna, how about you guys reflect on why your standards of beauty for women are attached to how well they perform feminity within the patriarchy?
#lyanna stark#arya stark#asoiaf#/Lyanna isn't actually pretty she was a wild tomboy/ Those two things are not mutually exclusive 😭#how you look is not a reflection of your personality and this is also a running theme within the story#we have morally good characters who are ugly and morally bad characters who are beautiful this is like...kindergarten level#Lyanna is idealized in terms of her personality hence /you saw her beauty but not the iron underneath/#and Ned correcting Robert when he said Lyanna wouldn't have shamed him like Cersei had#he's a very shallow misogynistic character and I truly doubt he would've been as attached to the idea of her without surface level beauty#reminds me of people saying that Olivia Hussey is a bad fancast for them because she has a /doll like/ beauty and they're /rougher/ 😭#as though their entire facial structure magically changed once they realized they enjoyed playing with swords instead of sewing sdksdkdsksd#it's giving that one tiktok with the /cat pretty vs doe pretty vs bunny pretty/#even if you wanted to make the case that her beauty is idealized in her death we get Arya described a pretty multiple times?#idk it's just so wild to me to use personality as an indication of looks it just sounds so stupid#Arya/Lyanna can still have /delicate/ features (which is extremely subjective) and still have a wild personality#how about we acknowledge that the perception of both of them is warped by strict patriarchal gender norms instead?#some real analysis just to shake things up idk
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