the shepherd

[tokyostreetphoto]

Smoke, Shinjuku 新宿

[deadxclown]

He once loved the sun ☀️

[scarlett-delight]

Total Solar Eclipse 2024

[xanaxfarts]

A solar halo is a ring of light that appears around the sun. It's caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals in high, thin cirrus clouds.

[fleshfeathers]

[deityofhearts]

why is this the funniest response I could’ve been given

[dimensao7]

[tokyostreetphoto]

Golden Leaves, Shinjuku 新宿

[ihopewestay]

“I am made of bullets; shrapnel. You are solar flares and soft lips - better creatures could love you, I know. But now they’ll have to get through me.”

— my love should wear a warning sign, damn right I remember you     |e.j.|

[xanaxfarts]

[deacomposer]

∞

Send me ∞ and my muse will tell you…

If I Think They Are: Ugly || Plain || Alright || Cute || Freaking Adorable || Pretty || Beautiful || Hot || Stunning  If I Would Go On A Date With Them: Not even if we were the last two one earth || No || Maybe || Eh….Sure || Yes || WILL YOU MARRY ME If I Trust Them: Not At All || Not Really || Kind of || Yes || With My Life If I Care About Them: Not At All || Not Really || Kind of || Yes || Deeply If I Would Sleep With Them: Not Enough Alcohol in the World || No || Maybe if I were wasted || Maybe || Eh…Sure || Yes || You wouldn't have to ask My Comfort Level With Your Muse: Keep a Distance || Okay You Can Stand There, But Don’t Touch Me || Let’s Get Coffee and Talk || Let’s Cuddle || I Can Change In Front of You || Let’s Take a Bath Together If I See You As: A Stranger || An Acquaintance || A Friend || A Close Friend || My Best Friend || A Crush || The Love of My Life || It's complicated

[valtsv]

me trying to be supportive: can i offer you a nice "we should kill them" in this trying time?

[malaesthetics]

[the-composer]

Violet eyes, fixed on Mikagi’s face, watch him intently as he speaks, searching for any subtle shifts or inconsistencies in his demeanor—any aberrations that might hint at emotions he hasn’t yet picked up on.

Not that he expects Mikagi to hide much after this breakthrough. Now, on his end, it's just concern for his well-being. ❝ Then you don't, and thus make the best decision of your life. ❞

He exhales on that statement, relief washing over him. Mikagi was already demonstrating a claim to his own autonomy. This is good. ❞

❝ Is that all there is? Au contraire—your world is about to unfold. A blank slate isn’t a bad thing. And just because you’re under my protection doesn’t mean you’re beholden to me. ❞

His smile curls into a trademark smirk as he says, with a hint of levity:

❝ If you end up boring, that’s on you. So don’t lose your edge, Shinjuku. ❞

[deacomposer]

❝ how emanciparian of you. ❞ says mikagi, eyes fixed on joshua's while he listened intently to his reasoning; his expression still fixed but with no intent of letting the others hand go from within his coat. the way the other spoke made him sound so sure that there was a small part of shinjuku's composer that wanted to trust those words completely. however, it was the higher plane on the other side of this particular issue and things were rarely so clean-cut.

still.... he wanted joshua to be right. maybe that said more about him than he initially thought of himself.

❝ i dont think you'll have to worry about me losing that. ❞ with how the higher plane had him hardwired, he was sure whatever defiance in him would build up into something new and more complicated; unrecognizable from someone who was so willing to follow what the courts wanted.

❝ this isn't so bad. ❞ he eventually allows himself to say out loud. the blonds shoulders relax slightly in the resignation that he's stepping more and more out of bounds from what the higher plane would allowed. ❝ your producers set the bar on the floor, practically. nothing i do will register on a scale as bad as what propaganda has been said by those in charge. ❞ the emphasis on that was the acknowledgement that mikagi understood it was propaganda. a means to control the narrative the higher planes courts wanted out there. it didn't make him like the hanekoma's any more than he already didn't but it was the understanding that nothing was quite how the courts worded things. it was manipulating what information got out.

❝ i'm choosing you, joshua. don't let me regret that decision. ❞

[the-composer]

❝ Sounds like they're already giving up on you as a lost cause—another one lost to my clutches... ❞ That would make him smirk, were the circumstances not somber.

❝ That way they can save resources to spend on the still impressionable angels. Or they're regrouping to reasses their strategy. My hope, for your sake and my city's continued tranquility, is it's the former. ❞ He extended his hand, discreetly tucking it into one of Mikagi's jacket pockets to interweave his fingers with his and clasp tightly. ❝ I know your feelings are probably complicated... The twins struggled in their own ways, too, finding purpose and discovering their individuality. Your autonomy has been controlled for your entire existence, and I can only imagine how it must feel, to be displaced, among other things. ❞

He offers him a rare authentic, unguarded smile.

❝ I will help you in whatever ways you realize you need it. I will be at your side, as guidance and encouragement. I may not share the Higher Plane experience, but I imagine I will be able to relate. . ❞

Joshua averts his eyes for what he's about to say next.

❝ Even if you decide you'll return to them, I... will support you even still. Because I also understand that it's not so simple as staying sometimes. My point is, I will be with you through this, whatever this becomes. ❞

[deacomposer]

mikagi didn't know what this was. what he did know what whatever this was, it was the accumulation of several events culminating into an outcome that left a lot of things up to chance. as an angel, mikagi was accustomed to having a sort of second sight cognition that would aid in decision making. if he was being honest with himself, it was dull knowing the outcome. it made him less present in the moment when he knew what to expect.

even if the concern didn't show on his face; mikagi's hands tightened in his jacket; but physically relaxed when he felt joshua's hand lace with his own. it was all physical control right now that was keeping the phoenix's feathers from getting ruffled.

it was a sort of comfort in having joshua (of all people) here with him and speaking so earnestly. he realized long before now that joshua was the cause of a lot of change in things. a domino effect that'd caught up to their current point because joshua was willing to be defiant and become something new.

❝ and, what if I don't want to go back? ❞ he speaks up, his tone level but the question is sound in his resolve. it's not a matter of choosing. he'd already made his decision without realizing how final it was at the time- and now that he was realizing what that decision really meant, there wasnt any regret.

❝ what if this is all there is for me? would that bore you if i turned into another of your refugee angels? ❞

[shortvideosandstuff]

Fire Kites at Night

[celestial-equator]

the sun keeps no secrets from the moon