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unfair, he says, meaning something else entirely

I like to imagine hobie taking Noir's glasses and putting them on himself and he asks "what's up? Did it look good?" And then noir is silent "Hobie... I can't see anything"

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Hey remember how Noir is an anti-fascist from 1933

搬一些之前的画过来🫳

cat person.

lovely antifascist boys <3

“Cheese.”

the flower (reprise)

Minish cap doodle dump because I'm happy and I love the little man :)

“cringe attack from your fail dog” - dark link probably

soooo about that update, huh? lmao

If they steal a kiss in the middle of battle who are we to judge?

I did it.. I did the ashrym arts

Please enjoy!

-Lee 🍃🐍🦇💚

Hope Hob! But in present day!

WE HAVE SECOND SEASON YEAAAAH

Sleeping Dream Lord

Happy birthday to twilight! (Twilight princess)

I Neglected My Work And All I Got Was A Lousy Couple Of Tieflings

Soren Arkwright and Iaus Inskeep from an amazing D&D podcast I’m following–Dark Dice I highly recommend it if you like D&D and Horror :)

Listen, I know Dream winning his duel with Lucifer with hope is like... A BIG DEAL and super symbolic and beautiful, HOWEVER I have something that may not be better, but would definitely be FUNNIER. 

Dream loses. He's been locked in a bubble and had his hopes dashed again and again, even though he's still fighting and still hopeful, it's harder for him to reach that and it doesn't come to mind in time for him to win against Lucifer. He's to stay as a servant in Hell and there's no Endless or divine being that can or will come to his aid. He's trapped. Again. 

Only Matthew isn't Jessamy, Matthew knows when the best way to help is a tactical retreat to gather reinforcements. So that's what he does, going immediately to Luciene like, "Hey, so, uh..." And there has to be some way they can help him! Luciene makes it clear that none of the dreaming denizens can. None of the Endless can, no deity would be of any help there against Lucifer. There are Old Laws dictating that Dream lost fair and square and no one can interfere with that. And Matthew's like, "Well what about someone who can challenge Lucifer to win him back? Someone not bound by the Old Laws?" 

"The only beings not bound by the Old Laws are humans. There's no human--" 

Except there is. There's one. One human that Dream would go off once a century to meet, and it's a long shot, but-- 

That's how Hob Gadling finds himself being approached by a talking raven asking him to trek into hell to rescue his boss. "You know, Dream of the Endless? Lord Morpheus?" 

Hob doesn't know who the hell the bird is talking about until Matthew describes him. "Oh, my Stranger!"

"...He seriously didn't even tell you his name?" 

Now, the idea of setting foot into Hell itself to do battle with Lucifer Morningstar is, y'know... Not something he wants to do. He confirms over and over if Matthew is SURE he doesn't have to die to achieve this, because he's not ready to leave yet, and Matthew is like, "Yeah, buddy, shouldn't be a problem." He's lying. He has no idea if it's a problem. (It's not.) 

Hob is like, "Yeah, but... I can't FIGHT Satan himself and expect to win, I AM still human." 

And Matthew's like, "You don't actually have to fight her, it's like a game! But uh... Pretty sure you still feel all the pain and stuff." And he explains the rules, and like, okay, feeling the painful death of whatever kills whatever you decide to be in your round SUCKS, but Hob's been through that before. It's actually a pretty intriguing game, one he thinks he might win. 

See, the way he sees it, it's a combination of the "times infinity" type of game (I love you, I love you more, I love you times two, I love you times a thousand, I love you times a million-- so on and so on) with that counting game where you either say one or two numbers, back and forth with someone, and whoever says 21 loses. Basically, there's one logical conclusion the game is going to reach. Someone is going to bust out the "times infinity" or in this case, "heat death of the universe" or some other completely life-ending thing. And like with the counting game, if you can get your opponent to say specific numbers on the way to 21, you can make sure they're forced to say it. 

There's a strategy if you think ahead enough, and he has an entire walk through Hell to plan it. 

(It SUCKS. He sees Robyn there. It breaks his heart. It's meant to, it's meant to keep him from reaching the palace, seeing his son in Hell, but they don't know Hob. They don't know the grief he's had to overcome in order for him to say, with absolute certainty, that he still wants to live even though it hurts. He reaches that citadel.)

Dream is, of course, horrified to see Hob there. Hob meanwhile is like a jilted exe all, "Yeah, yeah, we're not friends, you stood me up, but I'm still here for you because I'm the bigger person and I fucking care." 

He challenges Lucifer for Dream's helm and their safe passage out of Hell. Lucifer is... Intrigued. She just beat Dream of the Endless, and this human thinks he can beat her when humanity's collective unconsciousness couldn't? His immortality has made him cocky, clearly. So she accepts, and bargains that if Hob loses, he has to give up his immortality. 

There's a good minute where Hob pauses at that and has to really think about whether his arrogant, condescending not-friend is really worth that but yeah, yeah he is. Meanwhile Dream is off to the side. "Don't do this, Hob Gadling. It is not your responsibility to fix my missteps." Basically his version of pleading for Hob to leave and not risk this up until Lucifer is like enough out of you and shuts him up. 

They play. Lucifer starts out with the wolf again, because it's a good starting point to see what direction her opponent plans to take, to get a glimpse into Hob's mindset entering this game. Her plan is, of course, to cause pain enough that Hob will have a hard time thinking, but Hob makes that really fucking hard from the get-go and throws everyone in the room for a loop when his answer is...

"I am the over hunting of the local deer population. Ecosystem destabilizing, predator killing."

Well. Okay. Yeah, sure. Fucking fine. It's hard to kill that painfully. Lucifer manages to come up with, "I am hunting restrictions, nature preserving, ecosystem balancing." 

Hob, by that point, is like, I got this, actually. This might be fun. "I am the expansion of civilization. Forest destroying, hunting law nullifying." 

Matthew, who had been feeling pretty iffy about calling this guy in to help, is no longer questioning that choice. Dream is a little starry-eyed. 

Eventually Hob is the head of the Home Owner's Association. Lucifer is a bear, scrap hunting, person killing. Hob is family, revenge-seeking, bear euthanizing. Lucifer is Pride, argument starter, family destroying. Hob is friendship, blood covenant, thicker than womb water. Lucifer is jealousy, friendship rending, relationship ruining. Hob is personal growth, jealousy ending, apology giving. Lucifer is relapse, progress destroying, confidence killing. Hob is perseverance, step taking, progress rebuilding. On and on until finally Lucifer decides to end this the way she did with Dream and Hob leads her along until it reaches that natural conclusion, the death of all. 

Now there's some temptation there to go with the obvious, since he can't die even if the universe was destroyed. At least he doesn't think so. But he had already decided that it was an obvious choice to go for and he could think of a few clever ways Lucifer might get around that. So instead, Hob goes the far better choice and personal insult of being God, universe creator, life giver. He's very proud of himself when the demons erupt into boos and Lucifer looks about ready to rip his fucking throat out with her teeth. 

The way he sees it, there are two choices for her there, unless she really pulls something unexpected out of her ass. Option one is the whole "what's a god to an atheist" thing in which Hob would have then been a miracle, faith affirming, god-proving. Not much can destroy a miracle. 

But Lucifer, livid and prideful, goes with option two. "I am Lucifer Morningstar, God defying, His Kingdom ripped sunder!" 

And Hob has the absolute glee to grin and go, "I am Hob Gadling, clever, death defying, and triumphant over Lucifer Morningstar."

He and Dream are promptly kicked out of Hell on their asses, Dream's helm is thrown at his head with a force strong enough to break the sound barrier, and the gates are slammed shut behind them. The whole thing is so humiliating that Lucifer has to change their gender and moves to LA to open a nightclub.

Meowrpheus saga continues.

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Happy Trans day of visibility to all my trans guys gals and non-binary pals. In honor of that, here is a meme 💙💖⚪️💖💙

(dunno if this has been done yet, but Liam mentioning on twitter that Vax and Vex can be identical if they are in a world with dragons and all sorts of whimsical races and beasts gave me… an thought)

hi em !! u got any sexuality/gender hcs for the bonus boys????? ik mage has those badass top surgery scars n that mirror is dating ravio but what about the rest of em??? queer links r jus Very important to me ok

hello and welcome to my Every Link is Queer agenda. every single one.

just as a blanket statement, every link is gnc as fuck lol

Mirror: nonbinary, gay. actually he and ravio are legally married and don't know they're dating but they are. they'll figure it out eventually (mirror: i married ravio for hyrule citizenship purposes zelda: link u are my close personal friend and ravio helped save the kingdom u didn't have to do that mirror: i married ravio for tax purposes- )

Loft: cis man, pan, also he's polyamorous and dating both groose and zelda who are also dating each other :-) he had a crush on pipit once

Mask: trans man, pan. but also he grew up in a forest and doesn't care about what genders are supposed to do. he and malon aren't dating yet but they have little puppy crushes on each other n it's cute. one day they'll get married.

Wake: trans man, bi

Slate: transmasc, nonbinary, aro-ace. Also just generally does not care abt gender and vibes with however ppl refer to him. He uses he/him mainly bc that's how ppl referred to him when he woke up. (pre-calamity link was a trans man, but again, pre-calamity link was a different person entirely. all that to say, slate inherited a body with top surgery scars, not that he minds)

Mage: trans man, bi. i've given the blanket statement abt being gnc as fuck but it must be reiterated

Spirit: trans man, straight. he and his zelda are very cute n very in love

Mini: trans man, gay

Wolf: cis man, bi. he was in love with midna and has probably hooked up with shad at least once lol

War: cis man, bi

kubokai / pastel goth stuff

What if they met in a classical yanki-shounen scenario?

AH HEY y’all remember that Six of Crows zine I got into?? Here’s my piece for it!! I’m still really, really pleased with how it came out- I love all these kids so much!!

New Sketch-a-Wish voted on my wonderful Patreons for January! Featuring Kaz and Inej from Six of Crows!

Who’s ready to see scene this in live action? 😩✨🧡👀