love these outfits a lot

arthur (prince of camelot) still has to study under a tutor bc yknow uther wants him to be very intelligent before becoming king or something bc its super important idk idc anyways merlin is doing chores in his chambers while arthur is squinting at a book and merlin eventually caves and asks him what he’s reading and arthur gruffly explains that its a collection of stories from greece that make absolutely no sense so merlin asks him to read them outloud to him. arthur of course teases him and calls him an idiot and asks how he could possibly help but does as he’s asked and reads the stories to merlin as he does his chores. merlin (being crushed under the weight of destiny and tormented by the prophecies that kilgharrah spews) understands the stories almost immediately and gets all excited and starts rambling about them with arthur. arthur is glad to have someone who understands so he can give something that reflects a hint of understanding to his tutor who accepts it and moves onto the next unit of education.

the thing is, arthur finds more stories in camelot’s library and brings them up to his room to read them aloud to merlin under the guise of completing his studies but really he just wants to watch as merlin’s eyes gleam when he understands whats happening and listen to him ramble on and on about them bc he’s gay. the stories stick with merlin though and he realizes that they’re cautionary tales, that the heroes who were told too much of their future doomed themself to fulfill them - that them fighting the prophecies led to their completion. merlin takes it to heart and gives a big “fuck you” to kilgharrah before forging his own fate and helping morgana with her magic and handing out an olive branch to mordred and now everyone can live happily and peacefully in an albion teeming with magic.

the king’s hand (defier of destiny)

not a fan of people saying Odin and Loki are similar in a moral or decisive sense, particularly when it comes to Thor. that makes it sound like Loki doesn't know Thor or care about him beyond what he symbolises (regarding Asgard/the throne/family/worthiness), when that's a defining part of their relationship

Chain of Memories x Swan Lake

This has been my little brain worm for the past month and now I wish to infect everyone else <3

pov you're franziska and you're 11 years old and you just started your first period and papa has NOT been helpful but your brother has conducted extensive research and is handling it surprisingly well

reincarnation au where merlin is a historian and works as a museum curator and has always been drawn to the legend of arthur though he doesn't know why

and he's enchanted by arthur, though he feels silly about it, having a crush just through tales of him, and his friends at the museum, morgana, lancelot and gwaine, tease him about it

one day, they receive a statue of arthur and he feels so drawn to it, and a few weeks later, as he's staying back to work late after everyone's gone home, he can't help but step up close to it, reaching out to touch reverently

and he can't help it, he feels so drawn to arthur, that he tentatively places a hand on his cheek and leans in to touch the statue's lips with his own in a soft kiss

when all of a sudden, memories of his previous life at arthur's side rushes through him, his eyes flashing gold, and the statue comes to life, and it's arthur, he's back, he's back, finally -

Here have a snippet of the next chapter for HTRAJ y'all :D I'm mid write and I'm vibin' with what I have so far

“He’s long gone, Eds. Can we go back inside now? It’s fucking freezing out here,” Gareth asked, rubbing at his bare arms and shivering as the frigid winter wind raced past them. Eddie could barely feel his own body, but he ignored both the cold and Gareth’s words, walking towards his van. 

Steve was there. He had to be. He had to be, or else Eddie was going to lose his mind worrying over what was probably nothing, and he might say something incredibly stupid when they actually found Steve, and that would ruin everything they had worked so hard to build.

Luckily for Eddie’s increasingly fragile heart and mind, he spotted a familiar pair of beat up old converse poking out, attached to dark wash jeans that he instantly recognized. Eddie practically melted in relief, jogging around to the other side, needing to see Steve’s face. 

He opened his mouth to spout off some stupid quip about dining and dashing, but he stopped short the second he saw Steve’s state. All of the relief instantly vanished, replaced by a bone deep dread that overtook Eddie’s entire being. 

Steve was sitting on the ground, his knees pulled close to his chest and his eyes staring firmly at the pavement. He was as still as a statue and just as silent, barely even blinking as he took shallow uneven breaths. Eddie could see him shaking from where he stood, trembling like a leaf in the wind as he continued to just stare at nothing. 

Something was wrong. 

made yet another ref for my dnd character, calamity !

at some point i am going to have to force even to go back and deal with donna & tentoo & rose & all and everything they ran away from. and that will probably involve them losing tentoo’s chameleon arch watch by giving it back to its rightful owner, whether she chooses to open it or not. and that is. not going to be a very fun or stable time for them.

Fic-to-Art #30: Azula's accidental suggestion about the Fire Lord's Throne Room -- that Sokka turns into a promise

... This was a slightly crazy artwork because I suggested 'promise' as the monthly prompt, at a lack of sufficient options I added a few ideas of my own, this one included. Of course, those who remember this scene surely remember what kind of promise this was... :'D

This scene really amuses me, I hope I captured Azula's expression properly, but I'm a lot more confident in Sokka's, haha. One does not simply suggest a blatantly ridiculous concept in Sokka's vicinity, his brain translates them as suggestions xD one would think Azula would've learned not to toy with fate that way, but sometimes she benefits quite a bit from his wild train of thought, why lie...?

In order to properly convey the promise in question, though, this specific entry is a two-parter. If you're interested, you'll be able to see the fulfillment of the promise in THIS POST: the post is marked as mature for good reason, though, so don't click in there if you'd rather not open something considerably inappropriate right now :') Let's just call this a new attempt to use Tumblr's filtering system properly? Worth noting that the more risque version is only on Patreon because I'm not that ready to risk Tumblr's nonsense, soooo... yeah, that.

At any rate, I hope you guys enjoyed this one! If you'd like to be part of the creative process behind these pieces, a $1 pledge is enough to make you eligible for suggesting prompts and reading Gladiator snippets the day after every update!

I decided to give a go to @niennanir’s lovely print-your-own-fic recipe on my Inside and Out as a test run and I’m quite pleased with the results as a first pass :D

I wish I’d taken a few more process pictures but there was a slight lull as I had to go shopping for 12x12 cardstock lol, but! I do have a couple closeups/extras that I added for funsies :D

I went with freehanding the title and I think in the future I would opt to not do that lol, at least not without a printed template. That said, both LibreOffice and SAI refuse to recognize my SCII fonts >:0 If you notice on the first page, I used the Ace Attorney font in italic haha, it’s an okay alternative even if it’s not what I actually want |0 I am happy with the gold detailing tho :3c

I did have an unconscionable amount of fun freehanding the ship caption tho ahh <3 <3 Immediate happy stims upon completion, their names together look so pretty ♥ Credit to Zarla’s original minicomic on that one :3

I also managed to get the last sentence of the fic isolated on the last page thanks to the formatting haha ♪

I was also able to add a bookmark! Ma happened to have a couple very thin ribbons to choose from and red ended up complementing the green very prettily!

It reminds me of VUX tongues hehehehe ❤️💕💖💞

it's fun to look through datamined stuff but I need some of you to stop getting mad at larian for scrapping ideas you thought were cool. cool doesn't mean it'll make sense in the overarching story, and maybe larian likes this version better, or sometimes ideas just didn't work well with what they had in mind. I know this first hand from writing stories, I'll have cool ideas but realize later it doesn't fit the original tone of the story. it's okay to scrap stuff, but you can always use it for something else.

also, like it or not, it's larians game first, their story, their characters (I know.), it doesn't matter if we think something is cool, the reality is that not everything works in the end. and that's fine. that's how all art is, it's alive and ever-shifting, it'll go through many, many, versions, to the point where you might get sick of chewing on the same plot, and in the end the final version might not be as good as you thought when you look back in a few months or years. and that's ok. art isn't supposed to be perfect.

everything is subjective and I think fandoms would be a more intellectual place if people learned to critique art for what it is not what it isn't.

I love Nishida being the straight man to Majima's zany weird ass but also I do truly love when its very obvious that Nishida was obviously just as in on a scheme as Majima and can be just as bizarre, like this man could not have made his way up the ranks of the Majima family unless he was a little unhinged just like his patriarch, ya know?

in an unexpected turn of events i'm having to edit down the content in my aubrey monologues so that i can actually fit all four of them in my final performance for my standup class and on the one hand it sucks bc i really love some of the jokes i have to cut but on the other hand someday i'll be able to write more monologues and possibly expand upon this cut material so i can get a whole monologue on a topic that would've just been an aside

//why are you booing him? he's right