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“You’re the one who asked if the Cod Empire had stories,” Jimmy says, sitting next to Scott by the edge of a mangrove island. In the distance in the swamp, they can watch several young codfolk attempt to play—Scott doesn’t know the name of the game. Something that involves a lot of treading water and throwing a ball around and makes Scott look exhausted just watching it, at least.
“Yeah, but I don’t get it. Don’t fables normally have like… morals?” Scott says. “The ones I knew did.”
“I mean, I’d say the story about the catfish was always pretty clear to me,” Jimmy says. “Doesn’t change, but adapts. It’s willing to eat anything, but not change who it is, and it outlives the goldfish, who change all the time, because of it—”
And Scott stands, distant from Ren but still covered in blood, red crystals floating around him. He raises his sword silently, then he sits down with the axolotl and waits. He’d finish it himself, but he’s always simply tried to survive, survive without changing who he is in the process. He doesn’t know if he’s succeeded. His teeth taste like iron and bile. If he’d been about to throw up, though, he would have done it days ago. Maybe that’s what victory tastes like.
“—that’s a moral, right?”
“Other people change the goldfish though. The goldfish don’t choose to change. That’s… that’s the point of goldfish breeding, Jimmy.”
“Yeah, and they die if you breathe on them funny. Don’t you know what a metaphor is? You’re the one who said fables normally have lessons!”
Scott sighs. “Yeah, yeah. Fine.” He sighs. “The oyster one, though.”
“Well that one’s just literal. Did you not know you can crack open oysters to check water quality? They’re a good indicator!”
Scott throws his hands up. “No! I didn’t grow up by the ocean! And the story’s more like that an animal just kills the oyster one day, and it finds out the pain the oyster had been preventing—”
And as Jimmy bleeds out on the grass, he realizes he’s bleeding out for them a second time. He hears, distant, Grian justify himself, but all Jimmy feels is like he’s somehow been cheated. He’s been killed first, again. The first name in a bloodbath of them. How is that fair? He’s never asked to die first! He’s never asked to die at all!
“—which is just. Really sad for the oyster?”
“Scott, they’re oysters.”
“They’re fables! We were just talking about metaphors!” Scott flops back. It’s undignified. He’ll get leaves in his hair, and mud all over his clothes. He doesn’t care. Here, the mangroves in the brackish swamp water smell like salt and something he hadn’t smelled anywhere else, and it doesn’t smell good, really, but he’s figured out it smells like life, and also maybe Jimmy, in a way that makes it easy to not care quite so much about appearances. Maybe it’s the bird in him, he thinks jokingly. He does have wings, and so many of the birds come to roost around trees like these.
They’re quiet for a while, Scott flopped back, children screaming and laughing in their game, and Jimmy watching all of them.
“Did you have a favorite?” Jimmy finally asks.
“Would it be cliche to say the one about the lovers? The seahorses, the one who builds a beautiful thing for his lover.”
“They die in the end, though.”
“Yeah, but, like—”
The war never comes to the hobbit hole. It’s funny; in the end, the two of them had gone to the war instead, when it came looking. Maybe they’d known better. Maybe, thinks Scott, in the afterlife their four hands had built, maybe they’d known better than to taint it.
“—the things they made were real.”
“Huh.”
Jimmy helps Scott up again. He looks at Scott in the eyes in that way that makes Scott either want to kiss him or strangle him. Scott’s never fully decided which, which probably makes it all the stranger that he’s sitting here, getting covered in swamp water and talking about fables.
“And yours?”
“Mine? Oh, uh, it’s one—funny, I think I learned it from Lizzie? I have no idea why that would be.”
Scott raises an eyebrow.
“It’s simple. It’s just that all things start as water, and all things will be water again one day.”
“…what? Why would that story be your favorite?”
Jimmy is quiet for quite a while.
“Maybe it’s because… no matter how badly we were to mess up…”
And he watches the explosion and he runs, he runs, because he doesn’t know what else to do.
“…no matter how bad of a decision we have to make…”
And Scott looks at the sword, and looks at Xonorth, and he doesn’t know what else he could do.
“…we’ll always end up back where we started.”
“That’s… oddly optimistic,” Scott says, although he’s not really sure that’s what he thinks about it. Somehow, instead of optimistic, it makes Scott feel like he’s somehow both too big and too small for his skin, thinking of the world like that. Thinking of everything going back to how it started.
On a circle, once again, they agree on their rules, and they shake hands, and they make their kingdoms. Again, and again, and—
“Well, I do like to keep cheerful when I can!” Jimmy says brightly. “Oh look, they’ve finished with their game!”
“Yeah,” Scott says. “So they have.”
he's very excited about his first night as a jack o lantern
A quick sketch of a lovely OC belonging to @curlycupgumweed <3
ko-fi | redbubble
boy why are you so
honest commission for Yaboy Robin
It's my birthday again! I turned 24! I'm going to the zoo today :^)
Working on something. ✨
Also, I did a fun thing with the visuals of the words. Hehehe
So it seems that the Villain Donnie AU is our winner, followed by Elements and Tokyo Ghoul
Expect more of my evil little guy soon!!
Telltelltelltelltell
would y’all be interested in little quips and headcannons about my versions of the rescue bot cast? like upbringings and such?
*dies* I WATCHED THAT SHOW TOO! AHAHAHAHA LOVE IT WHEN I FIND SOMEONE WITH THE SAME MERGING INTERESTS AS ME BWAHAHAHA
[ID: Crossover fanart of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K and Pokemon, in which Saiki Kusuo contently sits criss-cross applesauce while petting a very bunny-shaped Buneary. End ID.]
Decided to combine my two obsessions! :D
got bored and redesigned momo's hero custom
:)
I wish there was an emoji with the ability to show what I am feeling
It’s a sexy mf inkblob! XD
Why they gotta do the tiny husband so dirty like this...?
*sobs for comic five*
WHY ARE THESE ONLY POSTED WHEN MY ASS BOUTA GO TO SLEEP COME ON MAN
I am gonna have a great train ride tomorrow 😍😍!!!
The Rehabilitation of Death
Chapter 17: Drunken Gods
On this day, The Lamb declares a holy day. For a wedding, for a feast, and for a festival to celebrate the grand harvest.
Despite his initial reservations (and after a particularly horrid nightmare) Narinder decides to attend, if just to please the Lamb well enough that they'd leave him well enough alone after. That's the only reason, surely.
With followers intoxicated, the cult becomes a ground of wild party, and Gods are not immune to the temptation of overindulgence.
There's music, fighting, flirting, more fighting. There are shenanigans all evening; including but not limited to: uncomfortable socialization, reminiscing on one's past, impulsive decisions of the close-proximity sort, hide-and-seek games, and sparring with drunken, uncontrollable bloodlust that may or may not lead to a near-mental snap with eldritch power when you remember something you weren't supposed to.
Read Tags/Notes for Warnings. Chapter Wordcount: 25,674
Happy Reading!
Listen to this NOW!!! It’s so good!!
So with how popular the Revenge Audio was, I wanted to make a contiSo with how popular the Revenge Audio was, I wanted to make a continuation of it, wasn’t sure how to progress it though @@ LUCKILY, a lovely by the name of Sarah B. reached out to me with a script to read, and by golly it really helped make this. Hope you enjoy! Mystery Skulls Animated belongs to @mysterybensmysteryblog and @artsyfeathersartsyblog Icon by @wolf-of-hearts
@raphala-389
Which fruit are you? Find out here!
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I need to draw Luffy more often he’s so silly!! I decided to draw them in a more simplish style just because that captures their vibe better.
I drew her with my headcanons, but if you don’t agree with them that’s fine! Just don’t… start a war with me… pls and thank u
Bilbo and thorin sketches!
Might paint them later today me thinks (´ᵕ `ก)
literally WHY would elizabeth swann go back to living on shore as a fancy lady waiting for will to come home every ten years. why does disney expect me to believe that
A Death in the Family AU part 1
"The Origin of Redwing"
What if (AU)...
What if Bruce and Dick weren't entirely at odds? What if Dick accompanied Bruce to the East? And what if Dick died instead of Jason?