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[ada1ne]

boreas

[pcktknife]

fh doodles

[cornercritter]

made animatic everyone go watch it please

https://youtu.be/Or9EVOY0FWM

[saintofwhimsy]

i feel very strongly about butch kristen. i’m imagining fig helping her cut her hair the summer going into senior year. kristen’s hands not being able to stop rubbing the freshly shaved sides whenever she’s nervous.

her experimenting with her wardrobe more and so ragh, fabian, and gorgug all give her some of their old clothes. kristen especially loves the old flannels gorgug gives her because they’re like a warm hug.

she starts reading up on lesbian, specifically butch, literature. sometimes adaine will read it to her while kristen is busy working out.

then of course, when kristen’s parents see her new look for the first time they weep and cry and are angry. but kristen doesn’t care, because everything finally feels so right

i don’t know how i missed this ask but i am obsessed with this and your mind. butch kristen is truly so darling to me and i think she would feel a lot of things while learning about queer culture and how beautiful and varied it is. stealing her friends clothes and turning old shirts into muscle tanks that show off her muscles more. refusing to shave and letting her body hair grow in a way that feels so much more natural than it used to.

[jalapenyochips]

a guy and his ghorse

[transformersweatpants]

hc that adaine and riz have joint custody over an ace pride hoodie and it’s just. horrifically coffee-stained.

[supercantaloupe]

can you fucking imagine what the theater bootleg community would look like after the opening for Midsummer Nights

like it was opening night with misty moore of COURSE someone in the audience had to be bootlegging that shit. but theater stans are rabid and people are definitely going to realize pretty quick that what goes down on opening night is not in fact what was supposed to happen, Everybody online is going to want to get their hands on that

also misty moore fucking dies after the first performance? traders are going to have a fucking FIELD DAY sitting on that recording because Everybody is going to want to see the fabled Opening Performance Of Midsummer Nights, And Misty Moore’s Last Ever Show (also it’s going to be a fucking nightmare to contend with youtube leaks on that one. yikes)

like two years later down the line pete texts rowan a link to a video called “FOGGY LESSE’S FIRST AND LAST FAIRY SLIME TUTORIAL” and she just needs to take a Moment to process what she’s seeing

[florensicz]

"i only have one follower... but she's a really great follower."

the moment in sophomore year that gets me every time

[some-dude-posts]

I agree with the posts that say “Adaine will probably die first”, and I would like to add my thoughts about how unprepared the Bad Kids would be for this and the guilt everyone (especially Kristen and Fig) would feel.

Adaine 100% dies in battle, the way she fights, always gives herself fully, getting up in there, it’s only a matter of time before death catches up with her. And when it does, the Bad Kids, who have foiled death so many times, who previously almost seemed invincible, now have to cope with the fact that they can’t outrun death forever.

I also fully believe that they prepared themselves for everyone’s but Adaine’s death. In fact, it’s one of my headcanons that most of them prepared things for Adaine, wrote little notes for her to read after they passed, left memories in the form of photographs, recorded messages for her to listen to, under the assumption that she would outlive all of them, and they didn’t want her to feel alone, wanted to help her with her grief, even when they were no longer there.

And then she dies first… no one is really prepared for that, no one thought it was possible, she’s a high elf, the people’s oracle, she’s immortal… she was supposed to be the one carrying the burden of outliving her friends… and now they don’t know what to do with themselves.

Then there’s the extra guilt of ‘letting’ her die. Kristen, who has been revivifying so many people, failing when it mattered so much. Her and Fig beating themselves up for not throwing Adaine more heals during the combat, too confident in their ability to escape death, to help their friends escape death, and it has bitten them in the ass. Gorgug blaming himself for not tanking more damage. Him, Fabian, and Riz beating themselves up for not killing the people that dealt the final blow, quicker.

And then there is of course the bitter irony that Adaine herself would have said that she should have seen this coming and should have been able to prevent her own death… and no one admits it but deep down they blame her just the tiniest bit for not seeing it, they can’t help but be a little angry at her for it. They all beat themselves up for feeling this way constantly… but they can’t help but remember what Adaine said in freshman year, when she found out about the oracle being in a shipwreck…

These feelings definitely don’t help with the already massive amount of guilt they experience.

[lovwren]

Recent drawings

This emily outfit is so fig i had to draw her

[eemolu]

bad kids mothers day headcanons

many years ago fabian asked cathilde to prepay flowers and a breakfast in bed service for hillariel. after bill dies he adds on a pirate singing in a barrel service, which makes them all cry a little but since they're seacasters they simply remark on how strange the weather is, no one forecasted rain

fig has so many dads and only one mom so she goes ALL OUT but in a fig way which is like. handdrawn card with heartfelt message inside. delivered underneath the door so she doesn't have to look at her mom or acknowledge anything she said. and also she bakes inedible muffins

adaine always has lunch with aelwyn and neither of them ever acknowledges why they're doing it but they DO order dessert. and that's healing

one thing about ragh barkrock is that he loves the FUCK out of his mom. i'm talking four course breakfast in bed, twelve dozen roses, one hundred handmade chore coupons that he respects the hell out of year round (the first year he's playing for bastion city he has a game that day so he comes home the weekend before and goes "yeah i had them move mother's day. i had them move it for me because i need to be here. i talked to my coach and he moved it")

every mother's day digby takes a photo of wilma and gorgug in the same spot by the front door of the tree and he can't really get them both in frame anymore so wilma puts on mechanical springboots and jumps up next to him. the photos are very blurry and very cherished

kristen really tells herself every year that she's not gonna do anything and then every year she buys a generic card from fantasy CVS and sends it without signing it. and she knows her mom knows it's from her and she also knows they'll never say anything about it to each other

sklonda and riz used to compete about who could get up first on mother's day (sklonda wanted to catch riz out and be like "ooooh you forgot" and riz wanted to make her cereal and give her a present) but then he stopped sleeping and for a few years the competition wasn't fun anymore so now riz's present is that he sleeps for at least a few hours and she gets to wake him up for breakfast and sklonda actually loves it so much she can't talk about it

ostentatia wallace throws a big fuckoff fancy dinner party for her mom and her grandma and freshman year post coma she invites gorgug since he gave her his tin flower. he does a horrible job and never uses the right fork but everyone loves him anyways and nonna asks about him constantly. it drives ostentatia nuts.

[okmurph]

I cannot imagine focusing in this scenario

[derangedrhythms]

"An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break."⁠ — Chinese Proverb

There’s something between us [...]  a sort of pull. Something you always do to me and I to you⁠—

⁠— F. Scott Fitzgerald, from 'Presumption'

I am stretched like a bow with your pull.

⁠— Rumi, The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication; from ‘Give Up Yourself’, tr. Will Johnson and Nevit Ergin

Something of you still taut / still tugs still pulls, / a rope that trembled / hummed between us.

⁠— Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman; from 'Vino Tinto'

I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.

⁠— Charlotte Brontë, from ‘Jane Eyre’

There was a silence between them, and a strange tension of hostility. They always kept a gap, a distance between them, they wanted always to be free each of the other. Yet there was a curious heart-straining towards each other.

⁠— D. H. Lawrence, from 'Women in Love'

I could feel the inevitable magnetic polar forces in us, and the tidal blood beat loud, Loud, roaring in my ears, slowing and rhythmic.

⁠— Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath’ ⁠— 15th May 1952

The tides inside your heart still pull me towards you.

⁠— Richard Jackson, from 'After All This', published in 'Salt Hill 22'

By then I was used to silence. / Though something stretched between us / like a whisper, like a rope:

⁠— Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘Orpheus (1)’

⁠— what still deepens pulls us back together.

— Caitríona O’Reilly, The Nowhere Birds; from ‘Possession’

We're connected by a thread / If we're ever far apart / I'll still feel the pull of you

⁠— The National, from ‘The Pull of You’

[ada1ne]

walking around school in my gorgug sweatshirt #keepgoing

[n1-adora-fan]

Getting distracted by the emily and zac drawing and erasing shit side plot of the ap

[johnbottoms]

thsi is literally fucking killing me

[monstrousfrogbuttocks]

my favourite dnd stats

charisma

strength

dexterity

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