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jade // any pronouns // 20s // please only follow/message if you are an adult! // here to occasionally post writing and consistently have feelings about fictional characters [header id: a picture of the moon against a background of the milky way. avatar id: a picture of pine trees silhouetted against the aurora borealis.]

[jadeandquartzes]

Rating: Mature Relationships: Julien Davinos/Aranessa Royce, Julien Davinos & Aranessa Royce, you can interpret it a few different ways  Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Pre-Canon, Character Study, Pining, Intrusive Thoughts, Thjazi Fang Haunts the Narrative, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Implied/Referenced Sex, Voyeurism, Masturbation, some mild dubcon fantasies, Hurt/Comfort, (not for julien though. lmao), local man learns what yearning is and has a truly terrible time, kind of the epitome of "I have a crush on my boss and I'm being so brave about it", for once in her life aranessa royce gets to have fun, and julien gets to suffer about it, as he should. 

It is not your place to comment on the decisions of House Royce.

Raimond Davinos's voice is unwelcome at the best of times. Here, now, in the midst of chattering people and overcrowded sidewalks, it infuriates Julien enough that he wants to scream. He grits his teeth against the impulse and keeps moving forward, gravitating towards the central courtyards of the Fray. He has a mission. He cannot afford distractions or indulgence.

Finding a single person in the midst of the Mason's Fest is roughly akin to finding a needle in a haystack. But he can do it. He will find Aranessa - who is undoubtedly lost, afraid, and confused - and he will make sure she is escorted safely home.

It is his duty, after all. It is the only duty he has ever longed for. The only duty he has ever known. 

To sidestep scandalous hits to her reputation, Julien goes to fetch Aranessa from the party she's attending.

It proves...challenging. In more ways than one.

read now on ao3!

[wirelessmousegirl]

Dating an incomprehensibly large megastructure girl is interesting because she will send you pics of endless halls and chasms of impossible geometry on scales that threaten to break you fragile perception of reality in 2 taken from security cameras miles above the ground and then respond with something like ">///////////////////////////////<"

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[starwheat]

Ingrid, poor girl. She's convinced she's in Bridgerton and she's fully in Game of Thrones

[bluestrawberry7]

I cannot be Stopped

(cr4 memes part 10 atp jeez)

[balrogballs]

FARAMIR & ÉOWYN

"And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air."

latest finished commission, where i had the opportunity to go with my own vision of the characters, and here's what i landed on... they may look like squares but i know they freak4freak in their hearts etc.

commission me / prints

[mechdeer]

I've seen a lot of posts about how Julien pretends not to care but clearly cares about Occtis, which is very delicious, but I also think Occtis' whole "I am tired of pretending I give a shit about you" thing is equally fascinating. I can't stop thinking about how right before that he says, "I am tired of trying to placate your anger towards me. I am tired of trying to do the things that I think you want me to do so you'll stop trying to kill me." Occtis, as has become very clear, was abused growing up, and probably learned to do exactly that - placate people's anger, do the things they want him to do - to try to avoid the abuse. That could be a whole other post but I think it's really interesting that he snapped and said that to Julien. He's afraid that Julien is going to hurt him, maybe even kill him, presumably because of him being a Tachonis. I wonder if that had anything to do with him asking Julien not to kill Koral - he was desperate for proof that a member of his family didn't despise him, but I wonder if any part of him wanted to see if Julien was capable of forgiving a Tachonis enough to let them live. And all of this after Occtis saying that only two people care about him and Julien not saying anything to contradict that. I don't think Julien is the only one trying very hard not to care. I think Occtis is terrified of caring about other people he is not certain already care about him (Thaisha and Thimble) because he's terrified of being hurt (again), so it's a whole lot easier to tell Julien and to tell himself that he doesn't give a shit. But like Julien, he certainly didn't act like someone who doesn't care - he jumped right back into his family's house to save Julien when his shadow dragged him back. Two people who are starting to care about one another and refuse to admit it because they're terrified of caring and I think that's very fun.

[unheardoracle]

I love characters who are like "I'm a terrible person" but when you look closer it's more like

"I adapted to survive something and now I don't know how to stop being that version of myself."

[jadeandquartzes]

can we have ONE day where my body doesn't try to mortify and betray me for existing inside it

[bonivers]

pushing back against oldest child stereotypes by making unwise choices and not being dependable

[trickstarbrave]

[ficauthor]

Psych is such a weird show bc in a lot of ways it's constantly asking, "can you forgive your father? even tho he could never forgive you, can you forgive him?" and the thing he could never forgive you for was not meeting his exact very specific expectations. And the answer keeps being yes you can, because not doing so is worse. You tried and it hurt more. You tried and it made you more miserable. You forgive him because he's all you have most of the time, and its somehow less complicated than whatever you have going on with your mom. You can forgive him but you can't forget, and then one day he realizes that he was wrong and there was nothing he should have taken as a slight about you, but you both just never acknowledge this paradigm shift in your relationship bc it'd be more awkward then fighting again for the millionth time. So things get better but you never say why, you never acknowledge it unless forced and somehow you forgive him more than your mom who you were never even half as mad at.

But also it's about breaking and entering into sea world and making a janitor think you killed your best friend so you can escape, it's about gaslighting your coworkers into thinking you are the dumbest man alive, it's about only closing a mystery when it's as funnt as possible and making sure everyone else around you is as baffled as possible. It's about childhood and nostalgia and growing up in the most chaotic way you can. It's about people being killed with a t-rex skull, it's about slapstick and committing to the bit and being the silliest messiest bisexual on tv in 2006-2014.

It's about a son and his father and forgiveness and somehow also they are in a circus tent trying to find out why a corpse was launched from a cannon. And also there's an extended musical episode that makes it onto my personal Spotify year after year

[phyrphyr]

Goober

[lichfucker]

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[clementine-kesh]

in a way grief sex is like having a threesome with a ghost

[dumbdoegirl]

huh. i am both wound and blade. neat.

[creepygnocchi]

if Mumford & Sons existed in Aramán I think 17-year-old Azune would have listened to Little Lion Man on repeat every night in his tent and cried. And I think Teor would eventually go up to him and say "you are not little lion man" and it would just make Azune cry harder because now he thinks he accidentally offended Teor. And Teor would panic and say "no no I meant you are not metaphorical little lion man, I didn't think you thought you were an actual lion man." Which, of course, would just make Azune even more upset because he feels guilty that he thought Teor would not understand the metaphor. And eventually he'd just be lying on the ground ugly sobbing while Teor is patting his back and saying "I wish to kill Mumford and all of his Sons"

[creepygnocchi]

not that anyone asked for further analysis but I think Kattigan would introduce Azune to Bruce Springsteen but instantly regret it because Azune would just listen to Nebraska on loop. he tells Teor "If I have to listen to Atlantic City one more time we'll find out whether everything that dies someday comes back." And Teor says "is still better than listening to the eh eh oh Bastille song every day, no?"

Thjazi keeps trying to get him into Green Day but Azune will only listen to Wake Me Up When September Ends and Boulevard of Broken Dreams

[creepygnocchi]

"what does Teor listen to?" I'm so glad you asked. Teor listens to a playlist called "chill lofi beats for morning yoga 10 hours long." he wears headphones (modified for lion ears obvs) and gently encourages Azune to do the same.

Thimble keeps telling people that she's gotten really into this indie band called Nirvana, you've probably never heard of them

[screechfoxes]

based on my sample size of EXU: Calamity, Critical Role Campaign 4, and Private Nightmares, i have come to the conclusion that Luis specialises in creating guys who seem Normal and Put Together and underneath have a deep strain of mental unwellness never seen before

[sallyisdrawing]

Ninth Saint