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[faindriart]

Commission for @aluvian for her Berserk/Gutsca AU! Thank you!

PATREON | COMMISSIONS | KO-FI

[astromechs]

This showed up in my Instagram explore feed, and I was immediately compelled to share it with you

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[imber-rain]

I'm going to be greedy and ask about these: Hanged man + SW desert whump car + Proposal 👀💙

Hi lovely. You're always welcome to ask as much as you'd like!

Hanged man A piece set nebulously between the seasons or at any canon time Vash is missing. Wolfwood gets in trouble with the local law enforcers (more of thugs than anything) and is to be hanged for it. The only thing that Meryl can do is feed him a vial's content right before it's done via kiss, pretending to be his widow-to-be. And she has to watch him die & get him away fast enough before he comes back. :)

A snippet (almost all that exists of it as it stands right now)

The scorching midday suns bear down down on Nicholas D. Wolfwood without mercy, much like his executors.  But his attention isn't on the sweat trickling down his temple or the soaked shirt clinging to his back and in the open wounds there or even the jeering crowd, thirsty for bloodshed. He only sees Meryl, her eyes wide and dark, as she steps toward him. There is a hitch to her breath and tremble to her shoulders, visible only to his eyes trained to notice weakness. (There is nothing weak about her in this moment, just another way Chapel had been wrong.) Nicholas doesn't even have the luxury to tell her to back off, to not risk the ire of his guards, because his life is in her hand or pocket now; the tiny vial that he's relying on mending his neck after he hangs from gallows looming over him and put a beat back into his heart.

SW desert whump car

It was started for Stryfewood week way back when I feel, story set to Devil's Backbone. Wolfwood gets hurt and has a bad reaction to vials, Meryl has to nurse him through the night on the desert. Thoughts on how important he is to her and themes of religion with her as someone who has always been skeptic.

A snippet. I don't know if I can go back to this style, but I'd really like to.

It starts something like this -  Under the scorching suns with a man left for dead (not by her, not yet); With a full body-car impact that sends her life veering off its’ course, but it already had, who is she fooling? -; As a fallen star crashes through the sky and silences thousands of wishes; On the edge of a crater, wind roughly licking away her tears, until she hides in the arms that saved her and doomed their star. Somewhere there and then, it becomes Meryl and Wolfwood and the road ahead, zigzagging across the endless sand toward any whisper of the one ghost they refuse to acknowledge as that. Some nights, she thinks she’s never lied as passionately as she does when she swears she’ll find Vash, that he cannot be gone. Those nights, she thinks she’s never seen anyone as desperate to be lied to, to be fooled so thoroughly it consumes the heart, as Wolfwood. They are tied with the rope of believeme-lietome, held together like they will disintegrate if they separate; she knows on those cold nights that only they can fill these roles for each other, when words are hard and the scent of his smoke is a third of the normalcy Meryl knows can never be recreated.

Proposal Stryfewood centric piece in the missing 2 years where Wolfwood makes a 'joke' about marrying her and she turns it on him, proposing simply but in earnest. It is supposed to be part 1 of a larger set that leads into Mashwood where they find him later on while being together/married.

A snippet. I am fond of this one as well.

"Meryl…" His voice is rough, scraping by the lump of awareness that something is going to break today in his throat. And Wolfwood doesn't know if there will be any fixing it after.  "Don't. Don't give me any of that 'I am not a good man' bullshit, Nicholas." Her grip on the counter tightens and her eyes are hard on him, dark in the shadow. "Being good is not about every grand act you could have performed or being unfaltering every step of the way. It is about a child you comfort, holding me after a nightmare, making sure to draw a bucket of extra water up for a grandma though no one asked you. And even if you weren't good, so what?"  Her voice has risen in volume and she catches herself, takes a breath, before continuing more softly. "Bad men have good things, things they don't deserve, all the time. When was the last time you were selfish?"  Every time I kiss you, every time I touch you like it is something I have right to, every time I am not bleeding out and mending myself in a pointless attempt to pay off debts that can't be written down, he thinks. "I don't want some hypothetical good man." Meryl pauses and a ghost of red brushes past her, past Wolfwood's outstretched feet.  "I am asking you. What matters is, if you want it. If you want me." She is still, waiting for his response - or lack of it. How fragile and almost translucent this silence is, Nicholas thinks. Like her skin in the early morning, when he can press kisses to veins on her wrists, follow their journey up her arm with his lips and linger over her tender, armed heart. It is so easy to bruise her, sometimes merely by holding her too tight when he tries to protect her. He has never been good at not breaking things. Not even himself. That's all he knows how to do, even. 

Ask me about a WIP title?<3

[faindri]

Vashmeryl and Stryfewood for the ship bingo, please! 💙

Vashmeryl:

Stryfewood:

[kiaraalazulu]

Your opinion on Stryfewood, please :3

they make me feral but tbh I didn't ship them until I started trying to draw fanart and discovered I suck at drawing Vash so I just drew Meryl and Wolfwood together over and over until I realised how hot and how interesting their dynamics are

[kriscynical]

I cannot believe I just pre-ordered this. I've never spent so much on something that wasn't Aladdin.

I blame @aluvian for this.

How dare you show me this.

How dare you.

[bertharussellgf]

#9 for the ficlet ask!

Thanks for prompting! #9: Waking up together snuggled in bed and kissing sleepily, nuzzling noses

She knows she would’ve risen only a few minutes later due to the sunlight gradually creeping its way across the bedroom, but Scully will never acquiesce to her husband’s early-morning ministrations easily. She bites her lip to stifle the giggles trying to escape as Mulder nuzzles the vertebrae of her spine, making sure to trail butterfly kisses as he goes along.

“Scully...” he murmurs, his voice light like the weight of the world on his shoulders hadn’t started turning his hair gray at thirty-six.

“Fox...” she sends back, just to rankle him.

A mistake, Scully realizes too late as Mulder’s hand wrapped loosely around her waist tightens and starts dancing across her skin under the blanket. She bursts out laughing, curling up tight in a reflexive effort to stop him from tickling her, but he has two hands and two feet, as well, all coming into play now.

“Mul—” she wheezes out between laughs, “Mulder—Mu—Fox—Fox Will—” Scully gives up, eventually twisting herself around so she could face him, grinning stupidly and out of breath.

Mulder has a matching smile on his face as he leans forward to brush his lips against hers. “Morning, wife.” It’s still new—the rings, the titles, being able to claim each other in public—honeymoon only recently finished.

“Morning, husband.” She nuzzles her nose against his, relishing in the life that they’ve managed to carve out for themselves.

No, they’re by no means society’s definition of normal (the toddler and baby asleep in the next room over are a testament to that), but they have all the peace and satisfaction they could ever need right here.

[wilwheaton]

Hi Wil! I saw that you had reblogged a gif from Neon Genesis Evangelion. What are some of your favorite anime?

I was really into Voltron and Robotech when I was a kid, but the only anime I’ve watched in recent years is Psycho Pass, Cowboy Bebop, and One Punch Man. 

I think I’m way way way out of the demographic for Anime, though, because when I’ve tried out anything that comes across my dash on Hulu or whatever, it just doesn’t interest me. However, there is a lot in the basic Anime aesthetic that I find pleasing, which is why I reblog a fair amount of it.