OTP Drawing Challenge Day 3-(crying) (I May Have Been Listening To Otetsu's "Candy And Chains" When I

OTP drawing challenge day 3-(crying) (I may have been listening to Otetsu's "Candy and Chains" when I drew this...)

“Gunther? Dearest, what is it? What’s wrong? …I can’t help you if you won’t talk to me…”

Ever since her brain injuries, Nerr has been… apathetic towards most things in life at best. Strong emotions don't come as easily to her as they once did. However, if you dare even look funny at Elise or Gunther, she will come after you like a pack of savage wolves. Unfortunately for her, some problems can’t be stabbed away. Spending three months in complete isolation and constant fear of his life (in Valla) took it’s toll on Gunther, whose life up to that point hadn’t exactly been pleasant. Sometimes, he just needs to vent. She gets that… but she doesn’t like it. She wants his sadness and pain to be a physical thing that she can maul.

When you reblog your old shit cuz it's buried WAAAY down at the end of your page

Ugh, finally finished this monstrosity. Joining the fe amino inspired me to stop being lazy

This, so much. I think Gangrel, if you recruit and marry him in Awakening, fits this perfectly. His life is in shambles, he's lost everything, it's heavily implied he's a deathseeker... this is a broken shell of a man who did everything wrong in life, but if you give him a chance and a little help, he devotes himself to being a better person and making things better for the people he's wronged. Note that it doesn't make a lick of difference to the rest of the world- no one forgives him. The only people who don't outright hate him are the woman he tried to execute, his one aquaintance/potential wife, and his son. It makes me so happy to marry my avatar Bryn to him and think that he does everything in his power to become the best king Plegia has ever had.

“Bad guys don’t deserve to be redeemed” is a boring plot mindset and it’s cancelled forever.

Show me bad guys that think it’s too late to turn their life around, and then turn it around. Show me bad guys that think they’ll never be loved because of the things they’ve done and then give them love and support that makes them feel like it’s worth it to change. Show me bad guys who are bitter, hold grudges, lash out at people, and then make them realize that this Isn’t Working and want more out of their life. Show me bad guys that ask the good guys for help!!

The “villain gets what’s coming to him and is never seen or heard from again” trope is old and played. I want to hear from them again. I want them to ask the good guys to drive them to their first therapy appointment. I want them to struggle through apologies, not because they’re too proud to say “I’m sorry” bc tbh that trope can die too, but because they can’t find the words to make things better and it makes it feel pointless to try.

Make it hard! Make it hurt! Make them question who they are and if change is possible and make them find out that they can be more than the destructive thoughts and behavior they’ve adapted! Make them learn that having bad thoughts doesn’t make you a bad person, and you can choose which thoughts and desires you entertain and act upon. Let the choice to ignore bad thoughts and focus on positive ones become easier over time. And let them feel proud of themselves for it!

Real people struggle with these issues every day and right now the social message is that if you fuck up, you’re scum and you deserve to suffer and you’ll never be more than scum. Real people need to know that you can’t undo the damage of things you’ve done, but you can be better in the future. Real people need to know that you’re not pigeonholed into being a Bad Guy for the rest of your life because you’re a Bad Guy right now.

Nobody “deserves” to be redeemed, it isn’t about “deserving” redemption, it’s about working your ass off not to keep hurting people because you can.

"NOOOOOOOO! I won't let you arrest him!"- me, everytime I play Conquest.

I'm kinda curious, how do you think F!Kamui would tell Xander she's gonna marry Shura?

I don’t normally do this but I thought the answer was too funny not to do. And it’s been a while since I’ve drawn Kamui being a hornbag. 

Such a great ship. I need more of this in my life

THIS. TOOK. FOREVER.

Yeah I know something so simple and quick. Not. I’ve never really…drawn stuff like this (even though I really want to get into drawing hentai)

But…ahem…anyways.

30 Day OTP Challenge

Day 2 - Kiss

With a book in her hand, the princess had been long delved into a novel Leo recommended. She hadn’t read it for some time, but finding it in the market of a small town her team had visited proved fruitful for the pickup. Only being a quarter of the way through i she was reaching a decision point in the nove. Either to full throttle complete it most likely thorough the night and next day or put ito down and let it collect dust.

Jakob had poured a fresh cup of tea as she reached for it a knock onthe door could be heard. When it opened immediately she smiled.

“I am still never gonna be used to not hearing Jakob or Felicia ask before entering, you just barge in.”

Backing up the thief gave a small bow, smirking up at her. “May I..ahem..fuck how do I ask this? I heard that boy ask this a milion times.”

Liara’s face fell into the book a little bit, trying to conceal her laughter.

“What’s so funny?” He asked, walking over to squat down in front of her seat. “What ya laughing at?”

“I am just thinkng of all the times I will have to speak for you when we meet with royalty in different places.”

He scoffed at the idea, his hands folded as he bounced on the balls of his feet. The thief came more alive any time he spent around her, a stark contrast to the man the army had met.

“Don’t scoff Shura. You will one day be my husband, you will have to accompany me for many diplomatic ventures we come across.”

Realizing the wording she chose she turned to the man, ready to apologize. “I-I’m sorry I don’t want to push you to do anything th-”

He had leaned in closer to her, his eyes softening for her. It was a sight to her, one only she saw.

“I would die a happy man to just hear ya call me your husband.” He whispered, “One day Liara, I promise you that. Ya gonna have to put up with me for the rest of my life…” He looked down, a smile still holding firm on his face. “and our kids…”

Setting her bok pages down she fully faced him, leaning down to meet him. “Shura….you being so close I’m wondering if you’re going to give me a kiss with that dreamy statement you flirt.”

His face was bright red, almost stammering at her reply. He could try to be romantic and smooth, but he always stumbled up on it. How Niles and Laslow continued to do it he couldnt’t understand.

Taking a deep breath he looked at her, her cheeks taking on a shade of pink as his eyes locked with her.s. “I-I don’t wanna steal a kiss…I want ya to give me one.”

Leaning down the princess pressed her lips to his,  a slow and warm kiss that made his heart beat rapidly.

Before he could feel his sanity slip the man pulled away and stood up. Taking her hand he pressed a kiss to it, getting a jump out of her. “I will be returning to my quarters milady. have a good night, Liara.”

Liara wanted to protest, asking him to spend the night proved fruitless. She was surprised when he had told her he would not spend a night with her until they would spend every night together. Instead she simply allowed him to follow his heart.

“Goodnight love.” She let slip, covering her mouth at the pet name. Her embarrassment was settled by a short chuckle as he left the room, closing the door behind him.

That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a myth, y’know.

It’s basically born of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is “it’s a displaced parent/child bond”.

The trouble is, cats aren’t naturally solitary. We just assumed they were based on observations of European wildcats - but housecats aren’t descended from European wildcats. They’re descended from African wildcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and family groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony: a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by alliance of dominant females, who raise all of the colony’s kittens communally.

It’s often remarked that dogs understand that humans are different, while cats just think humans are big, clumsy cats, and that’s totally true - but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour toward us makes a lot more sense through that lens.

The like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats bond with colonymates - it establishes a shared scent-identity for the colony and helps clean spots that they can’t easily reach on their own.

They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony’s shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can’t easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that’s why they kill so much more than they individually need - it’s not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kills to sustain the colony’s non-hunting members.

They’re okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co-parents.

It’s even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as long as those children are related to one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human “kittens”, and your kittens are their kittens.

Basically, you’re going to have a much easier time getting a handle on why your cat does why your cat does if you remember that the natural mode of social organisation for cats is not as isolated solitary hunters, but as a big communal catpile - and for that purpose, you count as a cat.