redraw of my best darkwood fanart happy pride month yall
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Cosmic Funnies
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation

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redraw of my best darkwood fanart happy pride month yall
If you have writer's block, you need to read this
You don't need to write the story right now, but you need to write a moment.
Forget the plot, the grammar, the spelling...
It doesn't have to be good. It doesn't even have to continue from where you left off previously.
Try writing:
The scene that happens right before it all changes.
The moment before it all goes wrong.
A conversation that starts in the middle that the character's don't finish.
Dialogue they scream at themselves in the mirror, because they couldn't say it out loud to the person that needed it the most.
Write for five minutes without stopping.
Don't fix spelling. Don't reread. Don't delete. If it's messy, it's working.
And if you hate it? Well then, congratulations! You're writing again.
Les chats feront des chiens
Les ronces feront des grenades
Et moi, je ferai la guerre.
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Is this how you roll?
A black cat sits elegantly in front of 049. Green eyes staring at the plague masked man with a sort of curiosity and in its mouth it held a hand written flyer, advertising a little shop hidden in some swamp that sold magical wares and ingredients. The cat had been handing these out for a while now to any individual who seemed like they might be some sort of magic based being and the cat was waiting for him to take the flyer so it could carry on delivering them to other people..
Normally animals didn’t pay the Doctor much mind, so when this one came up with a paper in its mouth, he paid it attention. Someone must have spent some time training the cat. He took the flyer and skimmed over the page. While he didn’t like labeling the method he used for his Cure as “magic”, he acknowledged that he used some nontraditional substances most of the time. Said substances were hard to come by and he was running out of his stock. Not to mention the spices he used in his mask to keep the Plague’s miasma at bay needed to be refreshed.
He looked at the cat. “I don’t suppose you happen to be able to lead people to this shop? I’d rather not go wandering about the woods aimlessly.” He didn’t say it seriously, seeing as it was a cat he was talking to, after all.
SHOOT THESE TURNED OUT WAY BIGGER THAN I THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE IM SO SORRY EVERYONE OMG AND THIS ISNT EVEN ALL OF THEM THAT I MADE
Gotta love those task forces! These aren’t all of them, but hey…
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BYE.
get the fuck outta my face
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Miles is 10/10 so they are perfect!
I found Landin's new faceclaim. Korean actor Kim Soo-Hyun.
Leonid Bichevin
-Squints at followers.- I haven't rped with a good third of you. We should change this.
The rumor mill had been going haywire for some time now. Most of it centered on a certain Professor. It seemed no one could agree on the number of people he had killed. A dozen or a hundred? Either way, it seemed something had gone very wrong.
“Are you really doing work on hotel internet?”
Anna made a non-commital noise, still scrolling.
“That can’t be safe. Anything could be intercepting you.”
“I’m looking at a message board. Nothing’s illegal. Look,” she spun her laptop around, “the P-Vs are posting their honeymoon pictures. That’s sooo worth spying on.”
“You’re grumpy tonight.”
“I’m hungry.” Anna’s voice turned harsh before she pulled herself back under control. “I don’t have any dollies here and you’re healing up. And some idiots are bringing up the Dankovsky stories again.”
“I see.” Ben settled himself on the other of the room’s single beds. “What’s it up to now?”
“Razie - you know what she’s like - is holding out for 14 dead, saying she swears she knows someone who knows someone who was there. Marcia is pulling up all the stories, like we did, and trying to psychoanalyse him to prove that he descended like an angel from on high and killed hundreds.” She rolled over and pressed palms to her eyes. “If he was going to kill people he could have done it while we were there. I’d have helped. I’d love to have helped. Get me one of the burner phones? I’m going to try calling again.”
Of course they’d saved the number Dankovsky had called them from. They had tried contacting him again once the rumours started, to no response. But they were persistant. Plus it would look so good for them to be able to say off-handedly “Well when I spoke with him he said…”
He caught himself against the counter. His head was spinning and a clammy sweat had broken out over his face.
"Fuck..." he breathed, "You came back to feed off of the Professor, didn't you?"
When he'd regained enough of his senses, he tried to snatch his hand away and put pressure on it himself with his shirt. He'd never actually met a vampire face to face but he'd read about them, seen files about them at the Foundation. What kind of researcher was he when he couldn't recognize one standing right in front of him?
The rumor mill had been going haywire for some time now. Most of it centered on a certain Professor. It seemed no one could agree on the number of people he had killed. A dozen or a hundred? Either way, it seemed something had gone very wrong.
“Are you really doing work on hotel internet?”
Anna made a non-commital noise, still scrolling.
“That can’t be safe. Anything could be intercepting you.”
“I’m looking at a message board. Nothing’s illegal. Look,” she spun her laptop around, “the P-Vs are posting their honeymoon pictures. That’s sooo worth spying on.”
“You’re grumpy tonight.”
“I’m hungry.” Anna’s voice turned harsh before she pulled herself back under control. “I don’t have any dollies here and you’re healing up. And some idiots are bringing up the Dankovsky stories again.”
“I see.” Ben settled himself on the other of the room’s single beds. “What’s it up to now?”
“Razie - you know what she’s like - is holding out for 14 dead, saying she swears she knows someone who knows someone who was there. Marcia is pulling up all the stories, like we did, and trying to psychoanalyse him to prove that he descended like an angel from on high and killed hundreds.” She rolled over and pressed palms to her eyes. “If he was going to kill people he could have done it while we were there. I’d have helped. I’d love to have helped. Get me one of the burner phones? I’m going to try calling again.”
Of course they’d saved the number Dankovsky had called them from. They had tried contacting him again once the rumours started, to no response. But they were persistant. Plus it would look so good for them to be able to say off-handedly “Well when I spoke with him he said…”
He lowered the knife, but didn’t put it away. Maybe this guy was telling the truth, maybe he wasn’t. He had no idea what the Professor did with his business or most of his personal life.
“The person you talked to was his father,” Landin said. At least, as far as he could tell that man was Dankovsky’s father. They looked and acted similar. He couldn’t explain how it happened, but he was sure it was true. He knew the Professor was immortal, maybe he’d given the gift to his father too.
“The Professor is being contained up in the master bedroom. I…haven’t seen him for a while, actually,” he said. “…Why did you come to talk to him in the middle of the night? Who let you in? ”
“We let ourselves in,” came a voice from the other side of the doorway. “Your security isn’t very good.”
“Behave yourself,” Ben repeated, letting himself look away from Landin as the knife was no longer an immediate threat. “We operate at night. Last time, we visited at night. I just didn’t expect to run into anyone.
A head poked around the doorway.
“Sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you.”
Landin could believe that about the security. More people had been sneaking in and out of the manor than he was able to keep track of.
And that childish voice had no business coming from such gaunt and horrific features.
“Well, you can try to get up and speak to the Professor if his father will allow it. I’m pretty sure he’s being kept under lock and key,” he said. He peered at the face in the doorframe. “What are you?”
Anna smiled as she drifted out from the doorway again. Two of her teeth were too sharp.
“Come here and I’ll tell you, pretty. I’ll whisper in your ear. You smell so nice.”
“Keep control of yourself,” Ben said softly.
“I am in control. Use your knife there, pretty. I want to see what’s inside you.” She kept talking as she glided forward over the floor. “Bleed for me. Give me a little taste.”
Ben recognised this. Keep the prey distracted until you were in range for a sneak attack. Oh well. Better this stranger than him right now. He would scold her later, she would be sweetly contrite, and next time he would give in.
Landin’s hand and arm were easiest to reach. Anna feigned a step to the side then seized it, pulling him forward over the counter island. The back of his hand was the first part to meet her mouth, then the rest of the world vanished as his pheromone-carrying blood spilled.
He should have run. He knew he should have run, but he was kept there, as though something had entwined around his legs and made them umable to move. A paralysis that started from inside. He shouldn't have looked at her eyes.
He shuddered at her suggestion of what to do with the knife. He'd rather drop it than do that. And in a bit, it wouldn't matter anyway. She had an amazing strength for a girl. She pulled him forward fast enough to knock his glasses askew and send the knife out of his sweaty palm.
And through the haze of her bite. The words came to mind, Vampire, vampire, you idiot. You should have known.
It wasn't a good idea to pull away. Her teeth would have torn his hand apart. And some part of him...didn't want to. Maybe the same feeling that kept him from running before and kept him from screaming now. Still, it was an odd feeling to watch someone feeding from him and want to do nothing about it, feeling the pain and yet feeling strangely detached from it all.
“Shhh, they’ll hear you.”
The Doctor hadn’t been expecting anyone to still be down in the labs (no one human, anyway). The Cured lab techs that hadn’t laid into each other were still lurching around, ignoring 049’s commands. He wasn’t used to this, normally they obeyed him to the utmost.
And now Burakh had wandered back in here. First the Professor and now this. How many more people would be witnessing his folly today? He’d already taken care of Landin and his daughter.
“I don’t fear them. They won’t attack me. I don’t smell like prey. It’s you who should be worried. What are you doing down here?”
"Please don't start a fight in the airport parking lot, Artemiy," Daniel said. He was leaned back against the seat, the world spinning a bit from the sharp turns they were making in search of a space. His stomach protested, but not enough to reject its contents. All the same, he was happy when they were finally stopped.
He climbed out of the back seat slowly, making sure he was awake from the sedation enough for his legs to function normally. He was a bit sore, but he should be able to walk.
"We go to the terminal where the private planes take off. I can get us through without dealing with security. Just follow my lead," Daniel said.
There were still plenty of people in the airport at this time of night. People waiting in corraled lines, sleeping on the benches, trying to calm screaming children. Daniel knew where he was going, passed the main entrance and towards the offices. He exchanged a few words with the greeters, showed them some papers, and they let him and Burakh through with only a spare glance at Artemiy.
It was a terminal at the far side that was where they were headed. There were very few people on this side. A woman with sandy blonde hair and a black vest was sitting in one of the offices nearby, nursing a pile of cookies and some coffee and reading a magazine. She looked maybe a couple of years older than Dankovsky, at most.
She looked up when they came closer and stood up, her hands in the air, exclaiming in German, "{Daniel, Daniel, you haven't been kidnapped!}"
"{No, of course not. Forgive me for making you wait,}" he said. He took her hands and they kissed each other's cheeks. Then, he continued in Russian. "This is Burakh. Your plane should have enough room for him."
She sized Artemiy up. "He'll have enough room as a passenger. Otherwise I'll clear some room in the cargo hold."
"He and I can squeeze together for the trip. He won't complain," Daniel said.
The rumor mill had been going haywire for some time now. Most of it centered on a certain Professor. It seemed no one could agree on the number of people he had killed. A dozen or a hundred? Either way, it seemed something had gone very wrong.
“Are you really doing work on hotel internet?”
Anna made a non-commital noise, still scrolling.
“That can’t be safe. Anything could be intercepting you.”
“I’m looking at a message board. Nothing’s illegal. Look,” she spun her laptop around, “the P-Vs are posting their honeymoon pictures. That’s sooo worth spying on.”
“You’re grumpy tonight.”
“I’m hungry.” Anna’s voice turned harsh before she pulled herself back under control. “I don’t have any dollies here and you’re healing up. And some idiots are bringing up the Dankovsky stories again.”
“I see.” Ben settled himself on the other of the room’s single beds. “What’s it up to now?”
“Razie - you know what she’s like - is holding out for 14 dead, saying she swears she knows someone who knows someone who was there. Marcia is pulling up all the stories, like we did, and trying to psychoanalyse him to prove that he descended like an angel from on high and killed hundreds.” She rolled over and pressed palms to her eyes. “If he was going to kill people he could have done it while we were there. I’d have helped. I’d love to have helped. Get me one of the burner phones? I’m going to try calling again.”
Of course they’d saved the number Dankovsky had called them from. They had tried contacting him again once the rumours started, to no response. But they were persistant. Plus it would look so good for them to be able to say off-handedly “Well when I spoke with him he said…”
He lowered the knife, but didn’t put it away. Maybe this guy was telling the truth, maybe he wasn’t. He had no idea what the Professor did with his business or most of his personal life.
“The person you talked to was his father,” Landin said. At least, as far as he could tell that man was Dankovsky’s father. They looked and acted similar. He couldn’t explain how it happened, but he was sure it was true. He knew the Professor was immortal, maybe he’d given the gift to his father too.
“The Professor is being contained up in the master bedroom. I…haven’t seen him for a while, actually,” he said. “…Why did you come to talk to him in the middle of the night? Who let you in? ”
“We let ourselves in,” came a voice from the other side of the doorway. “Your security isn’t very good.”
“Behave yourself,” Ben repeated, letting himself look away from Landin as the knife was no longer an immediate threat. “We operate at night. Last time, we visited at night. I just didn’t expect to run into anyone.
A head poked around the doorway.
“Sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you.”
Landin could believe that about the security. More people had been sneaking in and out of the manor than he was able to keep track of.
And that childish voice had no business coming from such gaunt and horrific features.
“Well, you can try to get up and speak to the Professor if his father will allow it. I’m pretty sure he’s being kept under lock and key,” he said. He peered at the face in the doorframe. “What are you?”
“Shhh, they’ll hear you.”
The Doctor hadn’t been expecting anyone to still be down in the labs (no one human, anyway). The Cured lab techs that hadn’t laid into each other were still lurching around, ignoring 049’s commands. He wasn’t used to this, normally they obeyed him to the utmost.
And now Burakh had wandered back in here. First the Professor and now this. How many more people would be witnessing his folly today? He’d already taken care of Landin and his daughter.
“I don’t fear them. They won’t attack me. I don’t smell like prey. It’s you who should be worried. What are you doing down here?”
Some of the other cars were gone. The drivers had taken them while fleeing. It meant the garage doors had been left open so that they didn’t have to worry about messing with security or the opening mechanisms.
About twenty minutes into the drive, Daniel stirred in the back. The world was hazy and he was pulled back underneath consciousness a few times before he forced himself awake. It would be a while before his body would obey him completely, but at least his eyes were open. He pulled himself up slowly into a seated position.
“The labs…I don’t suppose it was too much to…hope I’ve been dreaming this…whole time.”
“Well, what’s life but a dream, after all…” Burakh had the rear-view mirror tilted down, so he could check on him periodically. His eyes softened when he saw him wake.
He reached for something in the passenger’s seat. “Here.” He passed a paper bag back. “Figured you’d be waking up soon. I got you something. If you’re nauseated, it’ll help.”
There was a burger and fries in there. They were still hot.
“I’m headed for the airport. You have a plane or something waiting? Don’t know much about flying, me…”
“So you’ve mastered the drive-thru. Congratulations, you’ve learned how to survive the future,” Daniel said, taking the bag. He wasn’t particularly hungry, but his stomach hadn’t come around enough to feel nauseated and he would rather get something in it now.
He started in on the fries, taking bites in between speaking.
I called someone this morning about flying us to the Gorkhon. Saved my life many times over these long years, especially during the wars when my research and I needed to move. In return, I took her into the Polyhedron.“ He paused. “I wonder if she’s been at the airport all this time. I told her we would be there at noon. She’ll give me an earful if she’s still there.”
Burakh snorted. “I even managed to get you a drink.” He passed the soda back to Daniel.
“…She’ll be there. People wait for you, oinon,” he said. His voice had a note of tenderness in it.
It was beginning to rain, but not a hard. A few stray drops hit the windshield. Burakh decided he liked this. The warmth he felt with Daniel, the relative silence, the ease of the highway. There was something intimate about driving with another person.
Daniel lapsed into a silence as he finished his food. Apparently he was hungrier than he realized as he ate all of it. The relative peace wasn’t lost on him, but he couldn’t enjoy it quite at the measure that Artemiy did. He liked being with him, watching him again, but there was something off, a tarnished spot on a stained glass window. It both unnerved and irritated him, even moreso because he couldn’t figure out where the feeling stemmed from. He hadn’t felt this way the night before, laying with Burakh, the closest he had felt to having his old joy back.
“You’ve never flown before, have you, unless you have a story I haven’t heard about. We’ll be on the plane for most of a day.”
“A day?” said Burakh, sounding awfully casual. “Well, oinon, what has science been up to all this time? Thought by now it would be faster.”
A long pause.
“…Eh…it’s not very dangerous, is it?”
"We can't teleport over just yet. Give me a few more years," Daniel said, not entirely joking. "Statistically, flying is safer than driving. Provided you don't think about the thousands of feet of air and the sheet of metal between you and the ground. Don't worry, our pilot has been at this for fifty-seven years. You couldn't be in better hands."