#nightingale

I don’t know what this is. I do, but I don’t. Context will be provided only upon request. I tried out starting from the middle of an idea rather than the beginning, and it’s been so long since I’ve written or even read my own work that I don’t know if this even sounds like my own work, and I know I’m gonna edit this to hell and back and drive myself insane, but. Hey. WORDS. I made words. That’s a start.

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“You want me to fuck him up?”

She snapped her head back to him but only looked curious, tilting it to the side. “What, like, kill him?”

Victor shrugged. “Eventually.” He had been itching for a mark lately. Oswald was just as particular as Roman had been about the when and where of Victor selecting his own targets (and even more so the who) and didn’t provide nearly as many himself. “But I mean, y’know, scare him, mess him up. Hurt him.”

Masami’s head tilted further, birdlike. (Fucking songbird.) “You’d do that? If I asked?”

Victor shrugged again, a little glad she hadn’t said “For me?” “Sure.”

It was what he did. Well. Not what he did on his own but what he was willing to do when directed. And he was good at it, even enjoyed it. They deserved it, after all. Death was a gift he granted the suffering masses, but some people needed to endure a little more horror before receiving that reward: especially the ones that interfered with the people Victor was responsible for.

And now by word of Penguin himself, that category included the fucking birdie–though Victor could admit he’d made peace with the idea beforehand. His little stunt in the Lounge had been proof enough of that. (But it still would have been weird if she’d said “For me?”)

“It was a dick move,” he offered as explanation, interpreting her silence as a need for one. “He’s got it comin’.”

“Mm.” She kept staring at him with her head canted, blinking slowly, one corner of her mouth tugging into the faintest smile, still curious but now also… amused. Appraising. Victor very deliberately didn’t think about how familiar that look was or on exactly whose face he’d seen it before. “That’s… sweet.”

She tipped her neck back to a human angle and took another glance down the street before spinning right back on him, smile suddenly all canines and mischief. “Could I watch?”

mxlfoydraco:

just remembered how the cartoon that shall not be named gave young girls a dark skinned princess who was an orphaned genocide survivor, a leader, a diplomat, a skilled soldier, a kind and strong woman only to just… kill her off for shock value and man pain

not only that! but that they tortured a gay, disabled man of color with ptsd and past degenarative disease for seasons upon seasons, without any resolution for him other than getting stripped off his rank he worked for his entire life, sidelined from the story he’d been a major part of for 7 seasons and every single friendship he had, including the one with his male bestfriend who‘d literally die for him

it’s so fucking cruel and I’m still mad

teascatsandsciences:

Allura who watched her planet die. 

Allura who woke up 10000 years later to see that her father had been betrayed and the legacy of his betrayer had nearly destroyed the entire universe. 

Alllura who fell in love with someone who couldn’t love her back in the way she needed and wanted - and who had to watch the man she cared for die because she couldn’t save him. 

Allura whom Honerva manipulated with visions of her past and a possible future. 

Allura. 

Since I decided to make a pause in watching cartoons, I decided to finally read the last “Bubble” series up to “The Time of The Raven”, so, I’ve read “Exlibrium” “With Good Intentions” (issues 11-14). If you remember (I bet you don’t) the previous issue ended with all those library kids hanging out and a panicking librarian (from a regular library) rushing out of the city with a bunch of books and weird characters. Well, the whole issue Lilya and Inga are fighting a crocodile, that has eaten the Sun (yes, it’s a real character from on Soviet book for children by Chukovsky). Lilya tries to make the book “eat” the crocodile from the inside and falls inside him. Then, she realized that she has to use her powers, makes herself angry (by listing things that irritate her, for example, Nicolas Cage movies), so she just burns the crocodile from the inside and faints. In the next issue we see how Angelina (the directress of the library) and Nightingale (everybody says that he’s “her character” – which means that he’s a character from a book she wrote) are “in the circle” in which some “elders” (or something like this) at first rebuke them, but then let Angeline cure Arthur’s hand. He’s afraid that she’ll let him there, as she did many years ago (there’s some dark story, we don’t know yet), but she comes back and his hand is okay now. In the next issue, they come back and find out that there are two more monsters out and that students aren’t able to fight them. So, Angelina and Nightingale do it themselves only to find that the books were not only missing characters, they also had some intruders, so now students have to find and bring them out of the books. They find Baron Munchausen, who starts saying that people of the library restrict his freedom. While Students were in the books, the shadows were searching for a child (all the books were for children), who probably helped the characters to move and they find a boy, ill and all covered in ink stains. Arthur, Sasha and Lilya try to lead him through the Bone House, but it doesn’t work and he becomes a shadow himself. Now the real “heads” of the Circle: a man – “a militarist”, and a woman – “a liberal”, even though they are labelled as different parties them seem to be in total agreement and work together. They are listing the misdeeds of the people of the library (we get to know a little about some horrible evens – a war between librarian and mages out of the spectre, accidents – in first Sasha barely survived and the second he was a cause of and seven people died in; we also find out that when somebody becomes a shadow, all the memories about them are erased, but all the physical objects remain, so they are to be removed, which requires resources) and then say that they can be forgiven, if they help with one book – “The Hammer of Witches” – here’s the connection to the other series – the Magister (from the “Enoch” series) and “The Time of the Raven” is coming. The issue ends with the arrival of Magical Extraordinary Commission (no, not like is “Star vs The Forces of Evil”, like in USSR). This post wasn’t intended to be so long, there were just so much events in just four issues!

Hell, you guys must hate me for how long I’ve made you scroll through that post, but those comics are just so pretty!

“You look so perfect standing there
In my American Apparel underwear”

umm sharing ur underwear with someone else is unhygienic i do not recommend

Fear neither hardship nor darkness!

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