Pira

Just lurking. Maybe one day I'll post about any of my many changing interests

[rice-sake]

nrkb over dm with oomf

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Happy Pride to all of you but specifically to these good folks in the tags.

The fic is real and you can read it: Halfway to the Stars by Arsamenes I cannot summarize it better than Arsamenes did, I am not the writer in this relationship. I draw pretty pictures. But if you'd like 27k of gay pining, being perceived, getting to fight the algorithm and win, and some goddamn hope and optimism, this might be the fic for you. (also it literally takes place during pride month. topical!)

[scramble-crossing]

Woe. Uzukarimoto be upon ye

[remnorlia]

[quietwingsinthesky]

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

[quietwingsinthesky]

okay. something about the way i worded this is making people think this is a vent thing about real relationships. and it’s fine if that’s where it took you. but i feel like i need to be transparent here: this be blorboposting. karlach cliffgate and her terrible awful no good very bad betrayal.

[quietwingsinthesky]

they are seasoning my fucking post with unknown herbs. beefleaf. the fuck’s a beefleaf. why are you putting that in the stew.

[tiredandoptimistic]

Gwen and Elyan really are the siblings of all time to me. Excellent cautious one and impulsive one duo, especially since Gwen isn't actually that cautious. She's usually down for a wacky scheme, she's just surrounded by so many headstrong idiots (affectionate) that she has to play the voice of reason sometimes.

Gwen and Elyan both dealt with the consequences of their life choices: Gwen stayed in Camelot and had to watch her father be killed, Elyan kept running off on different adventures and he got himself imprisoned. In Gwen's hour of need, Elyan stayed away. In Elyan's hour of need, Gwen orchestrated her own quest to save him. I'm fascinated by how Gwen doesn't really expect Elyan to come home or to protect her, but she still does everything to keep him safe. And then she gets the reward at the end of her heroic quest, and her brother is finally back home and willing to be part of her life. Being a knight seems like a perfect compromise, since it gives Elyan an outlet for his wandering urge while still keeping him rooted in Camelot, but it apparently was too perfect because when Gwen is banished Elyan isn't willing to give up his knighthood to go with her. He literally took Arthur's side in the divorce, I'm never gonna stop thinking about it. Gwen basically constructed her own tragedy: she did all the work of getting her brother back, and then set him up with a lifestyle so nice that he was willing to prioritize it over her. I always assume that this was why Elyan was so intense in his efforts to save Gwen from the dark tower. He regretted his inaction, and so he overcompensated and charged into danger without thought in order to save her. Again, it's a great little tragic circle: Elyan was too passive in letting Gwen suffer, and so he tried to fix this by becoming overly reckless and getting himself killed instead. Morgana set up the trap with the thought that Gwen's husband would be the one leading the charge, but she failed to consider that her brother would be the one most focused on saving her.

Anyways, there's like three Gwen and Elyan plot points and they're all fascinating to me. What do you mean that Elyan has spent his entire life trying to find a balance between adventure and loyalty, and he never quite got it right. What do you mean Gwen will always protect him anyways, because he's her brother and she loves him.

[wiavi]

[sceyart]

Dearly beloved

[st-hedge]

Well happy pride month to this anon and the terrible pun

[kondietorei]

"I thought I finally found a friend I could relate to."

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[lemondoddle]

[Description: a looping bouncy animation of grace and Rocky from project hail mary. Grace throws himself onto rocky for a hug, smiling and nuzzling his face to the top of Rocky's xenonite covered carapace. Rocky brings a claw up to ruffle Grace's hair and grace throws himself even more on top of rocky, rocky wrapping his arms around grace. End description.]

[freesiavacadoo]

my namikai portraits…

[starhoodies]

[drememoto]

vespera

[melonnabar]

Kingdom hearts merch announcement/update! I’m gonna be selling these at galaxy con and some smaller venues in the Bay Area. I keep forgetting to post on tumblr 😭

[tendebill]

grace & rocky hug in zero-g <3

(no-xenonite version under the cut!)

[bramblequeen]

Halloween time again, woooo! Decided to stray from the usual Halloween Town aesthetics that dominate the KH fandom at this point of the year and just do a good old fashioned dress up/cosplay

Went with one Trio I love to dress up as another Triad I adore.