Do it on accident, keep it on purpose.

23 -- Any/All

[batsandboba]

@munnchausenzip i can't lie, it goes hard (x) (x)

[wastelandnaturalist]

The Yellowstone Wolves is the first case we study in any Ecology class, since it's the best example on how interconnected the ecosystem is - there's no direct reason why the presence of wolves would change the course of the rivers, but through a series of little things, it does. It's a reminder that everything is important, everything has a role in nature, and how the extinction of a population can bring an entire ecosystem down.

[cup-of-shark]

i’m sorry (you’re safe now)

(for @creative-clawmarks’ vampire alex au !!!! it has grabbed me by the throat and i love it greatly :] my freaks ,,,,,,,)

(12 hours. done in ibispaint)

(lil story drabble and also lineart under cut <3)

lineart <3 yayyyyy wowwwwwwww !!! feel free to take it and color it in if you like~ just credit me <3

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He doesn’t remember how it happened. How it started. He just remembers seeing Jay’s back, oblivious as he walks through the underground halls of Benedict Hall; his heartbeat was racing, his breathing tense, his nervousness echoing through the building like a symphony constructed just for Alex.

And then…

And then Jay is under him. His eyes are wide, and afraid, and he’s screaming something, but all Alex can think about is how beautifully his face contorts as he cries, the delicious scent of his blood beading up under Alex’s claws, how he shakes like a frightened rabbit under the paw of the wolf.

He aims for the scarred spot on Jay’s neck, where he’d been allowed to drink from before. His teeth are sharp, and large, and the venom drips out onto Jay’s skin. 

Blood spurts from the wound as Alex tears a chunk of Jay’s neck off. He’s not dead yet. 

“I’m sorry.” Alex murmurs, blood dripping from his mouth. “I’m so sorry.” 

He takes another bite. And another. And another and another andanotherandanotherandthereisbloodalloverhimbuthecan’tstophecan’tstophecan’tstopHECAN’TLETGO-

Slowly, Jay’s heartbeat fades into nothing. Alex can feel the bloodflow grow still.

He keeps tearing into the body, savoring the taste of every morsel he greedily swallows. 

“You’re my favorite…” He mumbles against Jay’s mutilated torso, between bites. He nuzzles his nose against Jay’s ribs, relishing the feel of the raw muscles against his skin. 

“You’re safe now. Like Amy and Seth. Like Tim, soon, too. And Brian. We’ll be all together again. We’ll be okay again.”

He pauses for a moment, his claws buried in Jay’s intestines, the blood hot against his cool skin. 

“I promise.”

Alex eats as much as he can, and then some more. Jay’s torso is empty by the time Alex is done, and chunks of his thighs, arms, and neck are ripped free, torn to shreds, blood sluggishly spilling from the open wounds. 

He can’t save any more. 

He has to destroy the rest. 

…He doesn’t want to destroy him.

Tears land on Jay’s ribs, and he can’t fight the urge to tear one off for safekeeping. He’ll die soon too, of course, but… Alex doesn’t want to chance being apart from Jay in case something goes wrong. 

He can’t.

He won’t let that happen.

He’s going to keep him forever, even if he can’t have all of him.

He takes a deep breath.

He drags his claws through Jay’s skin, slicing them into thin little ribbons. Then more, and more. 

He crunches on the bones until they’re dust, swallowing what he can manage of the marrow before he destroys them as thoroughly as he can. 

He mumbles to himself the whole time, begging Jay to understand. Praying that he knows why Alex has done this, why he had to, why it was the only thing he could do.

“I’m sorry. I have to do this. You don’t understand what it can do to you. What it’s done to me. I have to do this. I’ll keep you safe, I promise. I’ll keep you all safe. I’m sorry. I’m sorry…”

By the time he limps away, mind foggy and stomach full, mouth bloodstained and expression blank, the corpse behind him is barely more than a pile of mincemeat, sitting in a pool of blood. 

He does not look as the faceless thing stutters into being in the hallway behind him and takes what’s left of his favorite thing ever. 

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my freaks ,,,, i lovethem ,,,,, !!! thank you again @creative-clawmarks for this baller au !!!!!!! would have drawn the liveleak ending but i wanted jay dead sooooo ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ

also !! thank u for making alex’s teeth so awesome they were so fun to draw !!!!!!!

[creative-clawmarks]

Holy. Shit. Holy shit! This is INCREDIBLE! The art, the story, everything! This is a fucking MASTERPIECE!

I am incredibly impressed, you've done amazing work. I'm, like, lost for words this is so out-of-the-blue incredible. I hope you are very very proud if this :)

[ysengrm]

[darkspaceboytoy]

What we’re doing is an advanced form of playing Skyrim where you think about playing Skyrim, remember what playing Skyrim entails, preemptively piss yourself off, and forget about the whole thing

[bishopony]

my really funny and original concept

[creative-clawmarks]

is the discord still up and if so can i have updated invite link

Imma be real, I have no idea if the discord is still up. I left it months ago when my interest started to fade and I haven't heard anything from the people who were in there. Sorry.

[mug-of-shark]

additional question: if i ever get around to writing smn / finishing my drawing for it, would u like to be tagged still and also would writing smn and publishing it on ao3 (with credit (if i ever get around to it)) be ok

[creative-clawmarks]

Absolutely, my rules on making fanworks have not changed: go nuts, and lemme see what you make :)

I want to make it super clear to everyone that I have not distanced myself from the AU, I'm still happy to talk about it and see what people make for it. My door is open.

[creative-clawmarks]

is the discord still up and if so can i have updated invite link

Imma be real, I have no idea if the discord is still up. I left it months ago when my interest started to fade and I haven't heard anything from the people who were in there. Sorry.

[creative-clawmarks]

There's your answer, they would know much better than me.

The AU is essentially finished, I might put something out once in a blue moon if i get a spark of inspiration but that's about it. No tragic reason for this, and I'm more than willing to continue answering asks about it, I just did everything I wanted to do :)

Sorry to disappoint lol. If you really wanna you're more than free to make your OWN Discord tho.

[creative-clawmarks]

is the discord still up and if so can i have updated invite link

Imma be real, I have no idea if the discord is still up. I left it months ago when my interest started to fade and I haven't heard anything from the people who were in there. Sorry.

[fern-wake]

Guys I’ll be honest I don’t know what came over me

[creative-clawmarks]

if there ever was a poly hornets-ish ending to the au, ie, like Brian is a still ghost and everything is similar to the live leak ending but instead, they are so trauma bonded together, they can't really find anyone else to bond with, Tim wants to leave but his instincts tell him that he should also stay because he is a pack animal by nature and Brian is a haze technically, nothing physical and that hurts something inside of him. I'm talking like, they all understand each other's pain to a level that even if they found someone sentimental enough like Amy they would never understand the pain that they all had to go through and so they just stick together in this really unhealthy but somewhat healing dynamic.

Everyone is at odds with each other in some way or another but they also sympathize with each other in some way, Brians only reason for staying is because even if he eventually believed Alex was safe enough to be around the other 2 he would still have that nagging feeling of being afraid of what might happen if he did leave and so much other stuff.

Alex and Tim would have weird but deep conversations over why out of so many other people in this world, that they were the ones chosen by the operator, what he might be and what they might be doing for him in exchange for all of this agony.

Jay is living semi happily except for his changes, as he is obviously in a lot of pain, Tim and Masky team up to comfort him but ultimately it ends up with Alex being the one to take care of him because he knows this process more intimately.

Eventually they chill the fuck out and learn to live with each other with some romantic undertones but they all just kinda have that dynamic where they don't seem outwardly affectionate towards each other but they have their ways in expressing it.

On another note:

Can you imagine the shit that they could get up to when they are not being victorian levels depressed?

I'm talking,

"Have you ever wondered if we could like, idk see how much venom you can crank out in one bite? I mean a standard snake can get out maybe a milligram or something. idk"

"Why would I do that?"

"I mean I did try the flesh the other day so I feel like it might be fair to hear jay out"

"Tim, this is the same level of asking whether they should test that you have the same muscle and bone structure of a regular wolf or if there's something different"

meanwhile a computer reads: 'Do it you coward, how much weird vamp juice did you pump into me?'

cue Alex awkwardly holding a glass against his tusks and them finding out that he can crank out a lot of venom and most of them just silently stare like what the fuck?????

Also I'm making a sequel to a fic that I made a while ago with Kryers, do you want to be @'ed?

Also I really love your au, if you couldn't tell lmao.

Also sorry for the long ask lol, hope your doing well and I hope you have a good day :)

Damn dawg, you typing entire fanfics in my inbox lol.

[creative-clawmarks]

To be loved is to be changed.

[sylviida]

I'm having a lot of fun drawing stylized Wesker. He's so vampire-coded.

[kashuan]

some willsker at the club, also featuring chris and jill :`)

[kashuan]

another wesker and sherry comic... (the idea of) their relationship is Important 2 Me :`)

[creative-clawmarks]

Does, like, making the boys TM fucked up how you show affection to your favorite fandoms? (Team Fortress 2 and Marble Hornets)

Im a Tumblr user, of course it is.

[fern-wake]

Say hello to James Sunderland

i have a gift. he tasted so bad i threw out the cake immediately

[drsatyr]

on your toes