I’m Salem, but I also go by Nyx (thought-thief) in some places. Still trying to get the hang of posting on tumblr after years of just lurking. This blog will have a mix of sfw and nsfw so minors please don’t interact with the nsfw posts.
I love making friends so feel free to talk to me about whatever! I promise I am more scared of you than you are of me :D (no seriously I have bad anxiety that fights with my urge to be social so I will not judge you for anything)
I like Genshin, Honkai Star Rail and Hazbin Hotel (i am perfectly normal about Alastor) and might write stuff about it here.
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↳ yeet me random thoughts or requests for Genshin fics/hcs, can be any AU, xreader or character introspection, NFSW if you’re not a minor :) (haven’t gotten past sumeru yet tho so include Fontaine/Natlan characters at your own risk)
(Also the main thing on my ao3 besides some genshin ficlets is a Harry Potter fic but I probably won’t put hp fics on this blog)
((To be extra clear, fuck terfs, fuck rowling, canon is a sandcastle for us to destroy for our own enjoyment))
Notes: Holy hell how do I have 50 followers??? THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR SUPPORTING MY SILLY MUSINGS. This literally was just my way to learn how to write smut and post self-indulgent head canons but I’m glad people are enjoying this with me :DDDD
𝐙𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐈 ᥫ᭡
Yes, 100%. He will deny it every time but lay on this man’s chest, maybe press a kiss to his jaw, and his chest is going like a fucking engine. He will insist that it’s not a purr, it’s simply a content growl— or perhaps a rumble, at most. He isn’t some measly cat, after all, he is a mighty dragon, the Prime Adeptus—
It’s definitely a purr.
Get him a cat ear hairband. He will give you the most long-suffering, unamused look while he wears them, but he will wear them. Anything for his beloved ♡~
𝐗𝐈𝐀𝐎 ᥫ᭡
No, unfortunately. You have found no evidence that your stone-faced Yaksha is capable of emitting a purr, or purr-like sound (though certainly not for lacking of trying).
However… there is the matter of whether he is able to trill or coo like a bird, given that is his true nature.
He gets annoyed when you ask him, adamant that is not something he can do, and how dare you even entertain such a notion. Have you no respect for the adepti? Hmph.
…but you swear you’ve heard him chirp when you catch him off guard: kissing him without warning or praising him unabashedly.
It seems this will require further investigation.
𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐀 ᥫ᭡
Not purring, but whirring!! Got this idea from @seabirdtxt ‘s Glitch in Irminsul fic (it’s SAGAU focused on the diff vers of scara existing at the same time, go read it it’s great) and it just makes so much sense to me.
As a mechanical puppet, and an advanced one at that, Scara has tons of machinery going on inside of him. Though it usually can’t be heard, if you get especially close to his chest— a privilege only reserved for you and maybe Nahida during hugs —you can hear the whirring and clicking of his moving parts inside. It doesn’t sound the same as a purr, not exactly, but it’s pretty damn close.
Most of the time it’s pretty faint, but sometimes Scara might just make it louder— it’s got nothing to do with the way your face lights up or how you smile when you hear it, don’t be stupid.
Of course, the only way he can make the noise louder is by overworking his system, making the parts inside move faster than they’re supposed to. If he does it too much or for too long, well…
You’ll know it’s time to lecture him on taking better care of himself when he starts burning up. Overheating is the first sign he’s about to overload his system and shut down (or from everyone else’s perspective: pass out).
You’re the only one who can make him stupid enough to be willing to break his own mechanisms just to see that adorable ridiculous expression on your face. (He might come back to his senses in a petulant huff if you start calling him a cat, tho)
𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐄𝐃𝐎 ᥫ᭡
Sadly, purring is not a feature homunculi come with. But this is Albedo we’re talking about, he can definitely figure it out.
He won’t tell you just what idea you’ve sparked with your question— you always worry when he starts self-experimenting —but it’ll be fine! He takes all the necessary precautions, limits any risk, because there’s always some risk in life, and downs a concoction or two in his quest to see if he can change the makeup of his own body. As an artificial life form, he’s less delicate than an organic one, so he doesn’t need to worry about pesky issues like rearranging his (non-existent) organs in a fatal manner.
And it works! Well, sort of. You come back home to a boyfriend that is fully capable of purring!! And also!! Has, uh, cat ears…
Albedo would consider it a success— he accomplished his goal, even if there were a few side effects. And you get a pretty catboy equipped with the cute, twitching ears and a fuzzy blonde tail; everybody wins! ♡
Of course, there’s always the chance his experiment just turns him into a cat entirely… but it wears off after a day or so, so it’s not the worst thing Albedo’s done to himself.
Either way, congratulations, he can now purr for the next 24 hours. And regardless of his cat-to-boy ratio, he will be expecting pets. Get to it~
𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈 ᥫ᭡
He has bird vocalisations! Except he’s worse at hiding it then Xiao may or may not be. It’s not outright chirping, but it is a cooing trill in the back of his throat, too vibrational to be a regular hum.
It’s the sound he makes when he’s perfectly content, laying in a warm patch of sun on the soft grass, sat atop a roof with alcohol warming his veins, and curled up in your arms, round cheek smushed against your chest. He takes in a deep breath, filling his lungs with your scent, and then releasing it in a sigh, accompanied by the musical tones of his little trill.
He makes shorter ones when he’s pleasantly surprised; when you unexpectedly toss him an apple or pat his head. He’ll grin or lean into the touch and make that sound in his throat. Too quiet to be heard by the people around you over the din of the town, but you’ll hear it. It’s a sound just for you ♡
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The divisiveness of Iron Lung is deeply confusing because evidently a bunch of Gen Z YouTube kids are way more tolerant of a slow pace than many grown adults with film degrees
As a Gen Z YouTube kid. The movie fully held my attention the entire time. Fuck the argument that things were happening slowly, they were interesting and that’s what counts
I knew it would be good but oh my god. How the fuck do critics complain about the build up it was so???? I am a Chronic Movie Talker and I did not speak once for the entire ‘slow’ part, was just completely entranced.
It was pretty funny sitting next to @zoidrealm tho cause I just kept hearing ‘what the fuck what the fuck’. By the end of the movie they had commandeered both my arms to squeeze
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