"For the good of those who see in us, the defense of our beloved people, whom we love above all else and whose love we reciprocate, requires us to use our children as instruments and bargaining tools to obtain the necessary ends."
— Rodrigo Borgia (Lucrezia Giovane, directed by Luciano Ercoli)
this is random but one of my favorite ALNST joke OCs is a girl who had a massive crush on Ivan and was able to date him for a little while because he felt bored enough to accept her. what follows is the most excruciating insanity inducing half-relationship in existence (they lasted 3 weeks before she gave up trying to understand him)
day 3
prompts: delusion | sun/moon au
challenge: include a promise
open for better quality | no reposts | ID under the cut
[Image description: A five page comic portraying a fight between Childe and Diluc in Snezhnaya. The text boxes follow the Snezhnayan rhyme about pinkie promises and there is a brief interruption for dialogue.
On the first page, there is a flashback to Childe and Diluc making a pinkie promise. The panels then cut to Childe running at Diluc with his hydro blades, succesfully hitting Diluc’s Wolf’s Gravestone away. The text boxes read, “You make a pinkie promise, you keep it all your life. You break a pinkie promise-”
On the second page, Childe stands looking down at Diluc, who is unarmed and clutching at his side. They stand on the ice with snowy mountains and a cloudy sky behind them. The Wolf’s Gravestone stands in the foreground, stuck in the ice which cracks around it. Childe then brings a hydro blade up to Diluc’s neck. The text reads, “I throw you on the ice. The cold will kill the pinkie that once betrayed your friend-”
On the third page, there are black panels and a panel of Childe staring down at Diluc without any sympathy in his eyes. The text reads, “the frost will freeze your tongue off...”
Childe tells Diluc, “Sorry. Tsaritsa’s orders. As one last act of kindness, do you have any last words?”
On the fourth page, Diluc looks up at Childe with a conflicted expression. “Just tell me one thing,” he says. “Did you ever love me?”
Childe is silent for a moment. Then he responds, “No.” The bottom panel shows Diluc in shock.
On the fifth page, Childe swings upward with his hydro blade in preparation to slash it down on Diluc. “Never,” he says. His expression is not visible. The last panel is black and finishes the Snezhnayan rhyme: “...so you never lie again.”]
saying I ship them is not enough, I need to carefully and intricately explain exactly how their dynamic works and what they mean to each other and how they rely on the other in a detailed fashion that encapsulates exactly how their relationship effects me as a person. I need to put their relationship in a way that is more than just ‘I think they should kiss’ because kissing is gross and I think they should fight each other and fight for each other instead as an act of love. And because there’s so many ways to love, defining it through only a small selection of actions does it no justice. I need to explain the ways they care for the other, especially the parts that are never spoken. The intricacies of love as a concept that aren’t bound to a simple romance will be spilled once I get my damn hands on it
Anyone who's natural conclusion to "bad in bed" means being a bottom, I'm coming to beat you with my cane. The fuck is wrong with yall turning into the worst of toxic sex culture, even for the shitty joke, born of straight up misogyny and the worst parts of masculinity under the developed patriarchy where taking a dick up a hole makes you the lesser with a line that literally just says "He's bad in bed".
Edit for clarity in my issue; it's the reaction, I fully meant to type "being a bottom and being a sub" as the implications I'm seeing being "pleasure receiver bad for not giving back" is a very "Don't apply queer terms to your shit understandings of sex dynamics that are not cis het" reaction from me, a dyke.
I want to dress cute boys in slutty lingerie and short dresses, but I hope any transmasc boys I want to do this to don’t misunderstand this as a “detransition” thing. Like, no, I see you fully as a guy, my dude! I just happen to think you’d look really cute in a short skirt and panties while I fuck you.