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hi guys so basically welcome to the blog. what’s happening is this is basically a blog i’m reviving from like a year ago, so while i’m setting up a carrd and perhaps a theme, you may find some outdated things. however, the muse list and the rules are basically still relevant. please have some patience with me :) i look forward to writing together.

#this is gonna be a pinned post

look the porcelain skin is nice don’t get me wrong but why are they trying to make lamb a human

#it looks NICE #but why....#tbd

honestly guys rp accounts are like social media for me these days i sign in occasionally to see if my mutuals are still alive, smile when i see them on the dash or saying they got good things going on, then log off and don’t come back for another 6 months.

#that new support thooooooo #anyways hope you're all doing well #i know we only know each other becauase of these tenuous and happenstance encounter on the internet #because we are writing about video game characters #and i'm not really rping anymore #but i look back on the memories fondly #legit i would rp with friends and no one else like hte idea of finding new people to talk to UGGGGGGGGGGH you know

edenmemes

witcher: the last wish starters

❝ oh, what’s the point of explaining? you wouldn’t understand anyway. ❞ ❝ don’t grin like an idiot. there’s nothing funny about it. ❞ ❝ you’re losing your reflexes. ❞ ❝ they say the wisdom of ages is to be found in fairy tales. ❞ ❝ this sword can always be drawn again, faster than you can imagine. ❞ ❝ if i’m to choose between one evil and another, then i prefer not to choose at all. ❞ ❝ i don’t have anywhere else to run. i don’t know where i could hide. ❞ ❝ i’ll fill your evenings with tales of ever more astounding events from the past few years. ❞ ❝ i killed to avoid being killed myself. ❞ ❝ the world is changing. something’s coming to an end. ❞ ❝ are you really not frightened of me? ❞ ❝ talking and regretting won’t get you anywhere. ❞ ❝ don’t come back. never come back. ❞ ❝ how much of the rumours about you are true? ❞ ❝ people like to invent monsters and monstrosities. then they seem less monstrous themselves. ❞ ❝ it’s got nothing to do with you and that’s that. ❞ ❝ you need more than words to frighten me. ❞ ❝ what’s going on here? can’t i leave you alone for a minute? ❞ ❝ there’s something not quite right with you. i can sense that. ❞ ❝ am i supposed to give you advice and teach you how to live? am i your mother or something? ❞ ❝ evil is evil. lesser, greater, middling, it’s all the same. ❞ ❝ i’m not surrounded by any vortex or fate. ❞ ❝ i was beginning to worry. you didn’t regain consciousness for so long. ❞ ❝ the forest isn’t the safest of places at night. ugly things are heard and seen. ❞ ❝ there’s a grain of truth in every fairy tale. ❞ ❝ yes, i deceived you. i’ll deceive anyone if i have to, why should you be special? ❞ ❝ you’ve made your choice. are you sure it’s the right one? ❞ ❝ for some time now i’ve had hideous dreams. ❞ ❝ virtue is rarer today than a rock dragon. ❞ ❝ i haven’t got anything sharp on me. have a look for yourself. ❞ ❝ the day will come when people will learn, and get the better of you. ❞ ❝ it would be great if the cruelty of rulers could be explained away by mutations or curses. ❞ ❝ and to think that there are people who don’t believe in destiny. ❞ ❝ if you think i feel sorry for them, then you’re wrong. ❞ ❝ you’re talking nonsense while making wise and meaningful faces. ❞ ❝ i’ll confide in you, if you like. ❞ ❝ look at you — ethics, codes of practice, morality. who are you to talk? ❞ ❝ now, that, should really be of damn little concern to you. ❞ ❝ you look as if you are already a corpse. ❞ ❝ there’s no shame in fear. ❞ ❝ what do you desire? immortality? riches? fame? power? ❞ ❝ you underestimate my strength. ❞ ❝ do you want to burden your conscience with blood and death? ❞ ❝ now it’s as quiet as a grave. ❞ ❝ i know that, deep down, you like me. ❞ ❝ don’t leave yet. stay. a few more days. ❞ ❝ don’t do unto others what you would not have them do to you. ❞ ❝ i know my fate whirls about me like water. it’s hard on my heels, following my tracks. ❞ ❝ i’d prefer you not to make any sudden movements. ❞ ❝ help me up, please. ❞ ❝ i’ve never run away from anyone and i’m not about to change my ways. ❞ ❝ it’s my problem. my life and my punishment. ❞ ❝ the fact that you’ve arrived here exactly at this time can’t be a coincidence. it’s fate. ❞ ❝ slaughter and bloodshed can be avoided. ❞ ❝ you’ve got the devil in your eyes too. ❞ ❝ nobody’s ever called me that. say it again. ❞ ❝ humanity. that’s what you want. that’s what you dream of. ❞ ❝ what’s it to you what happens to me? ❞ ❝ you do realise that a sword alone will not defeat destiny? ❞ ❝ no, nothing’s wrong. i’m fine. quite fine. ❞ ❝ stories, well, i’ve heard them too. half are either made up or exaggerated. ❞ ❝ i could go where you’re going. i could keep you company. ❞ ❝ mistakes? of course i’ve made them. ❞ ❝ enough of this, we should go. it’s already dusk. ❞ ❝ maybe it’s customary, wherever you come from, to threaten people with swords? ❞ ❝ if it goes badly, i will defend my life. ❞ ❝ go on, thrust the sword into me. ❞ ❝ has loneliness got the better of you after all? ❞ ❝ everything can be dealt with. it’s only a question of price. ❞ ❝ you know my principle: duty then pleasure. ❞ ❝ i’ve never killed people for money, regardless whether it’s for a good or bad cause. and i never will. ❞ ❝ love and blood. they both possess a mighty power. ❞ ❝ i’ve got some medicine. we both need it. ❞ ❝ you’re embittered, hungry for revenge and conscious of your own powerlessness. ❞ ❝ what’s happening to you? i don’t recognise you. ❞ ❝ do you take me for a fool? ❞ ❝ i always get what i want. ❞ ❝ i manage because i have to. because i’ve no other way out. ❞ ❝ you can’t stand in the way of my happiness. ❞ ❝ to hell with destiny, oaths and irony. ❞ ❝ they hunted me like a wild animal as long as they could. until i became the hunter. ❞ ❝ i understand your hesitation, but i need an answer now. ❞ ❝ there are offers you can’t refuse, that the consequences are so terrible, and this is one of them. ❞ ❝ true evil is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you. ❞ ❝ i’ve seen too much to laugh at things like that. ❞ ❝ maybe i’ve not had enough to drink. ❞ ❝ you may kiss my hand. ❞ ❝ don’t pull that face. it doesn’t suit either your good looks or your complexion. ❞ ❝ if i want something, i don’t dream of it. i act. ❞ ❝ are you in pain? what’s the matter? ❞ ❝ i prefer to look after others. it turns out better in the long run. ❞ ❝ you haven’t got enough strength left. ❞ ❝ bravery isn’t going to be of much use to you. ❞ ❝ it doesn’t rhyme. all decent predictions rhyme. ❞ ❝ listen. you’re starting to get on my nerves. ❞ ❝ don’t do this. i want to help you. ❞ ❝ you’re a very interesting dinner companion. ❞ ❝ i’ll avoid that place like the plague. i’ll never go back there. ❞ ❝ you’ll soon see what i’m capable of. ❞ ❝ i do like you, although i don’t know why myself. ❞ ❝ it’s got nothing to do with me. i’m just asking out of curiosity. ❞ ❝ have you never heard of a sense of responsibility and plain honesty? ❞ ❝ you’re going there because you have to, aren’t you? ❞ ❝ we are what we are, you and i. ❞ ❝ did you see…did you see that? ❞

popping in to say i hope everyone who celebrates any holiday(s) recently had nice ones, and, for all, i hope you had a happy new year’s day.

as for writing - you should reach out to me if you want to write. it’s harder and harder for me these days to get back to writing at the pace and rigor i used to when i had more time. however, i still think of my writing partners often; if you have ideas you want to pass by me, please let me know so i can (happily) make time for you.

#out.

you know i recently got marked by a kindred in game and the voice line wolf said was “the masks of the kindred seek you” so ig it’s actually canon that the kindred refers to itself that way even tho everyone else doesn’t and idk if my hc was now just subliminal recall or actually my idea

#i'm having a crisis #only took me 7 years to figure it out #tbd

they FIRED the dude that wrote the kindred’s LORE???????

#they FIRED HIM????#like he didn't leave he was BOOTED????#for fucking WHAT #WHY???#KINDRED IS OBJ ONE OF THE MORE INTERESTING CHARACTERS I FEEL LIKE #TBD

theoptia

Ingeborg Bachmann, from Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems; “Journey Out”

Text ID: The dark water, thousand-eyed, / opens its white-foamed lashes, / studying you, deep and long,

#inspiration: the kindred

ahazath:

SHE CACKLES, THROWING HER HEAD BACK SUDDENLY. Rolling over with the force of it onto her back, she drapes a hand over her head. Body twists and shifts effortlessly, seamlessly into his own— all the same but how her gestures and demeanor are too alien. “ Oh Vivian!~ Goddess of change! Mother of madness!! Grant me what I wish! ” moaning and groaning, an exaggeration she finds too humorous. “ I beg of thee, I offer up my body and soul! Forever yours– for eternity! ” desperate words followed quickly by a familiar incantation– ancient and eldritch and powerful. If he’d not her to tether his mind, the words would sting like horrid daggers at the base of his skull.

The laughter subsides eventually, and soon he can see he own face peering back. An all too easy expression; smile too sly, too impish. “ You knew what you knew because it was allowed to happen. ” her tone( his tone )suddenly dark, serious. “ Mnnn Jericho, darling, dearest– there is still infinitely more to me and my own than you can fathom. All of time, and you will still only grasp a fraction of it. ”

Silence draws between them, before the illusion is broken. In the span of a blink, Vivian is once again her own self. Reaching out to press a talon gently to the tip of his nose, a childish and endearing gesture.

“ Don’t worry, it is best you do not know more than I allow. ”

Jericho’s frown deepens as Vivian adopts his visage: bony, thin, mottled skin, and a lame leg. He never does enjoy seeing himself — it only reminds him at how weak and feeble the casing for his mind is. What great things he could have achieved if only he had had a capable body coupled with his shrewdness.

Then again, the reason he never asked Vivian to change his body was to remind himself what he had accomplished so far without an ideal one.

When Vivian starts pealing from the floor using his voice and body, however, Jericho begins to glare. She speaks words — ancient and powerful. He does not understand what they mean, but he has enough magical competence to at least feel the tingle of their influence creep down the back of his neck. And when Vivian turns back into her preferred form and taps his nose, Jericho bats away her claw.

“What is best is what I decide,” Jericho snaps, haughty and proud — still a Swain, through and through. “Or was it not I that summoned you?”

#to absolutely no one's surprise jericho was insufferable even in his youth.#ahazath #interactions #interactions: swain

edenmemes

song of achilles rp starters

by madeline miller. i altered some quotes so they fit better ♡

❝ i saw then how i had changed. ❞ ❝ name one hero who was happy — you can’t. ❞ ❝ i feel like i could eat the world raw. ❞ ❝ you are half my soul, as the poets say. ❞ ❝ i have no need to forgive you. you cannot offend me. ❞ ❝ i do not fear ridicule. i never have. ❞ ❝ you have always trusted so easily; you have had so little in your life to fear or suspect. ❞ ❝ do you hear me? please, say something. ❞ ❝ your face is like quicksilver, always racing to something new. you unsettle me. ❞ ❝ you do not give things up so easily now as you once did. ❞ ❝ now i know how to make you follow me everywhere. ❞ ❝ i would know your face in dark or disguise. i would know it even in madness. ❞ ❝ there is no law that gods must be fair. ❞ ❝ i have never seen anyone fight the way you do. ❞ ❝ our dead come for their vengeance regardless of witnesses. ❞ ❝ the sorrow was so large it threatened to tear through my skin. ❞ ❝ when you die, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with you. ❞ ❝ you were always better with words than i. ❞ ❝ i will never leave you. it will be this, always, for as long as you will let me. ❞ ❝ you smile, and your face is like the sun. ❞ ❝ i thought you were — something. you do not — you do not move like a human. ❞ ❝ do you want to walk up to the woods? ❞ ❝ you can’t be very wounded if you can stand for so long. ❞ ❝ there are no bargains between lion and men. i will kill you and eat you raw. ❞ ❝ we are like gods at the dawning of the world. ❞ ❝ nothing could eclipse the stain of this dirty, mortal mediocrity. ❞ ❝ i yearn for the darkness and silence of the underworld, where i can rest. ❞ ❝ those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that i felt anything at all. ❞ ❝ you seem utterly unaware of your effect on the people around you. ❞ ❝ it was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. it was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. ❞ ❝ you are a weapon, a killer. do not forget it. ❞ ❝ i have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it — in such a way did i learn to live beside the rushing torrent of my doom. ❞ ❝ if you have to go, you know i will go with you. ❞ ❝ there is no one like you. ❞ ❝ we have given each other wounds, but they are not mortal. ❞ ❝ and perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. ❞ ❝ who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? it is enough to watch you win. ❞ ❝ do not let what you have gained this day be so easily lost. ❞ ❝ you have killed them and taken your vengeance. it is enough. ❞ ❝ no man is worth more than another, wherever he is from. ❞ ❝ strange that such a small kindness feels like grace. ❞ ❝ you can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature. ❞ ❝ i cannot bear to see you grieving. ❞ ❝ i remember little more than scattered images from my life then. ❞ ❝ i would recognize you by touch alone, by smell; i would know you blind, by the way your breaths came and your feet struck the earth. i would know you in death, at the end of the world. ❞ ❝ i see a dozen men here ready to leap on each other’s throats. ❞ ❝ in my land a bow is marked as the weapon of cowards. ❞ ❝ you may still make a good person. ❞ ❝ you don’t bother to threaten me, yet. i should be worth threatening. ❞ ❝ the memories well up like springwater, faster than i can hold them back. ❞ ❝ i hoped that you would come. ❞ ❝ the voices of the dead were said to have the power to make the living mad. ❞ ❝ i have weathered the anger of gods before. ❞ ❝ i thought of how many nights i had lain awake in this room, loving you in silence. ❞ ❝ there is nothing in the world i want more than to know what you had not said. ❞ ❝ you will never gain fame from your fighting. does this surprise you? ❞ ❝ my mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse: i wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. only that seems large enough to hold all of my rage and grief. ❞ ❝ i will not cry in front of you. ❞ ❝ listen to me. you go too far in this. i will not be able to protect you. ❞ ❝ there is no honor in betraying your friends. ❞ ❝ i’m afraid I have been prompted by a rare stirring of guilt. ❞ ❝ i promised myself that if i ever saw you again, i would keep my thoughts behind my eyes. ❞ ❝ i did not want you to see my fear, though normally we kept nothing from each other. ❞ ❝ gods and mortals never mix happily in our stories. ❞ ❝ you will be dead soon enough. ❞ ❝ you are destroying yourself. you will not be loved for this, you will be hated, and cursed. ❞ ❝ you left yourself today. and now you are returned. ❞ ❝ you are a better person than i. ❞ ❝ whatever you do, i shall stand with you, as i always have. ❞ ❝ you have looked at me a thousand thousand times, but there is something different in this gaze, an intensity i do not know. ❞ ❝ my life is my reputation. it is all i have. ❞ ❝ may i give you some advice? if you are truly his friend, you will help him leave this soft heart behind. ❞ ❝ what are you thinking about? ❞ ❝ even the boldest of people would whisper a prayer if they brushed against me. ❞ ❝ the keen edge of my envy was like flint, a spark away from fire. ❞ ❝ do you think we fight hopeless wars? ❞ ❝ it is strange, that you would speak against betrayal. ❞ ❝ if every soldier killed only those who’d personally offended him, we’d have no wars at all. ❞ ❝ no one has ever tried to take something from me. ❞ ❝ stay behind me. ❞ ❝ will you help me put the rest of my armor on? ❞ ❝ your face is blank and barren, like another language, impenetrable. ❞ ❝ i am here because i believe that we will win. i am staying until the end. ❞ ❝ your presence is like a stone in my shoe, impossible to ignore. ❞ ❝ he is not worthy of you. he never has been. ❞ ❝ will you tell me who hurt you? ❞ ❝ it is like a nightmare; i expect, each moment, to wake to relief. but there is no waking. ❞ ❝ i do not need to prove myself to you. to any of you. ❞ ❝ you have always thought too much of yourself. ❞ ❝ some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. ❞ ❝ even here, behind the darkness of my eyelids, i cannot name the thing i hope for. ❞ ❝ our joy is so bright we can see nothing else but the other. ❞ ❝ you have a tender heart. an admirable quality, surely. ❞ ❝ you are spring, golden and bright. envious death would drink your blood, and grow young again. ❞ ❝ i will not be the raven on your shoulder all the time, predicting gloom. ❞ ❝ you look different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. ❞ ❝ when there is greed, there is hope. ❞ ❝ i could have told you more, of the dreams that leave me bleary and bloodshot, the almost-screams that scrape my throat as i swallow them down. ❞ ❝ you are angry, and not without reason. ❞ ❝ you feel mislead; you were promised victory. ❞ ❝ you know, it’s funny; i keep thinking i’ve seen you before. ❞

#ask meme.

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ahazath·:

SHE ONLY SMILES WIDER, EYES NARROWING. Finding her own entertainment in prodding him and teasing him further. Allowing him one small mercy, vivian does let go of the hold she has. Soothing the skin over with soft pink fingers, adorned with ancient gold bands and red jewels. “ And what do you know hm? ” her form wisps into thick smoke, solidifying in front of him— claws tapping along the paper between them. “ — You’re an infant, Jericho, what do you know of my kin? ” head tilting, silky dark hair draping like liquid over one shoulder, a wave of tumbling ink. “ Before me you were on your death bed, you were begging me for the strength to lift your own body. ” laughter seeps into the air, it rattles around discordantly. “ I think I am allowed to play a little– don’t you? ”

@legenddeathed / cont

Now her touch is soft—a sudden surprise against the unrelenting grip from before. The jingle and glimmer of her jewelry are almost charming as she rubs his cheek. Jericho snorts and settles for ignoring her, eyes flickering back to his book.

As Vivian's sharp claws obscure his view, however, Jericho's frown deepens. "Enough to summon you," he replies testily, although Vivian is right: there's much Jericho doesn't know. Not that that's ever intimidated him before; he is always looking to sharpen his mind. It's the one good thing he has left that is truly his own.

He shakes his head to bat away her cascade of hair, thick and infinite and heavy. "'Begging' is rather dramatic," he clicks his tongue. Certainly, he'd been eager—excited, even—to be in her presence, but who wouldn't be? No one goes to the trouble of summoning an ancient being to be disappointed at the end. Still, begging seems gracious. He thinks his deal was more than fair: in exchange for power, he offered his own body and soul as well as worldwide conquest—eventually. When they get to it.

#ahazath #interactions #interactions: swain #young swain walking around while vivian is poking him like hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey

murderousintcntions-blog

Sense8 Season One Sentence Starters Feel free to change pronouns/descriptions/etc. appropriately!

“So this is how you’ve been hiding from me?”

“We are born into this world the same way we will leave it: alone.”

“I’m not sure what’ll give me more pleasure: the money, or seeing his face.”

“The stuff he’s talking about? It is exactly what you need.”

“Say one more word and I’ll colonize your face with my fist.”

“I can’t tell you how bad I feel even being here, because I know I shouldn’t even be asking you this, but I have no one else to turn to.”

“You’re scared. You needn’t be.”

“I don’t owe you for what you did, but you should know: I won’t ever forget it.”

“You have no idea what’s going on, right? So you just kind of have to let go and go with it.”

“You just look them right in the eye, and you lie.”

“This is like some crazy witch burning shit.”

“You cannot kill a man like that. If you want to do it right, you aim here, for the jugular.”

“You came back. I knew you would.”

“If I wasn’t such a bad person, I would let you get on with your life.”

“It’s not something you make happen; it’s something you let happen.”

“I just spent the last two hours getting my ass reamed by the feds.”

“There are few things that are unpleasant to me than to hear you whine.”

“Impossibility is a kiss away from reality.”

“I’m not calling you or anyone else.”

“Sometimes, violence is necessary. Violence changes things.”

“You are safer there than where you were.”

“I didn’t tell you because I didn’t think I’d ever have to revisit this part of my life. I’m sorry.”

“If you guys are starting some crime fighting super team Charlie’s Angels shit, you count me in.”

“Legality is a bit of a moving target.”

“I know I’m the bad guy.”

“Fuck her in good health.”

“I would never go straight.”

“I’m sensing a bit of a negative vibe here.”

“If you didn’t hear voices at least once, you were doing something wrong.”

“Just promise me no matter what you have to do, you will not let that happen to me.”

“Gods don’t give a shit about us. I speak from experience.”

“Only thing I want to ruin is that smart mouth.”

“Love ain’t nothing but a black hole.”

“If life has taught me anything, it’s that I can take a punch.”

“Not fair? This is the real fucking world. Nothing’s fucking fair.”

“The idea of praying to a god to somehow influence my own fate is both primitive and terribly sad.”

“I don’t know what you should do. All I know is what I have to do.”

“I was living in two separate worlds. And then somehow they crashed into one another. Now everything is dead.”

“I was afraid that if I came here I would want to die – or worse, that I wouldn’t want to.”

“I want to believe that the past is done with us the moment we are done with it.”

“What makes us ‘us’ is far less important than what makes them ‘them’.”

“Lying is easy. It’s what I do."

"I know what you did. You will pay. I swear it!”

“I’m an all access kind of girl.”

“This is a bad place. You should not be here.”

“Some things in our lives are inevitable.”

“Crying won’t help him.”

“I don’t know how to use my fists, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know how to fight.”

“What kind of man betrays his own fucking family?”

“When I give instructions, I expect them to be followed.”

“You didn’t expect this, did you? Have you made a mistake?”

“Are you real?”

“You did it. You saved us.”

#ask meme.

i guess lucian and senna is basically a parallel to viego and isolde

i mean lucian wasn’t a king that fell in love with a peasant but both men had their partners taken from them and both of them were hellbent on bringing them back and really spiraling in order to do so. it’s interesting that viego released the mist to bring back his love while lucian fought against the mist to bring his back, so for the two of them the mist represents different things.

i feel like learning about viego and what happened would...make lucian pause for a moment because he of all people can’t criticize what someone would do for the love of their life. even tho he hates and condemns the mist, how far would he have gone to get senna back? he doesn’t even know if there’d be a limit. he was lucky enough to be reunited with her after a few years, after all.

lucian’d still fight against the mist and viego wholeheartedly of course, but i think learning about viego and isolde would really make him appreciate how lucky he is to have gotten the one he loves back.

#headcanons #headcanons: lucian #idk if it's really a headcanon but just an observation