[image description: a series of illustrations of ianthe and coronabeth tridentarius from the locked tomb trilogy. a few are portraits. one shows corona leaning on ianthe’s back while they wink at each other. another shows corona resting her head on ianthe’s chest and the last shows ianthe entertaining corona with necromancy under a blanket.]
Morrigan/Leliana, for a Black Emporium treat! I must admit, I’ve very quietly loved this pairing since the first time I played Origins and caught Leliana checking Morrigan out, and I was so… !!!!!!!!when Leliana was really antagonistic towards her at the Winter Palace, oh my god, so yeah, um. Slightly angry makeouts please and thanks.
[ID: a digital painting looking down on four surgeons operating on an angel. the angel has eyed rings for a head and two sets of white feathered wings. its body is mostly not visible in this scene, because it’s obscured by the working surgeons, but its body appears to be composed of red veins or nerves. End ID]
[image description: a digital illustration of utena tenjou and anthy himemiya from revolutionary girl utena. they’re both lying in coffins filled with roses, in their pajamas, reaching out across the divide between them to hold each others’ hands.]
Here are my favourite stories I happened to read in this year’s collection. As always, they’re loosely grouped by canons or themes. Nothing too long this time: the shortest one is a drabble, and the longest ones are 5-7K. A lot of tasty worldbuilding, and a few shippy fics sprinkled in.
blorbo brain is literally so funny I love it bc you’ll listen to a song you like and be like “omg this is literally blorbo” and then make your besties who think of blorbo the same way you do listen to it and they’ll be like “omg this is literally blorbo” whole time the song is not about blorbo and if you made anyone else listen to it they’d be like “wtf this is not blorbo you guys are insane” but it’s blorbo
i doubt anyone remembers my future!hanji headcanon so here we go!! quick context: hanji injured herself during a dangerous experiment with a titan they caught. ended up getting burned pretty badly to leave a lot of scars on her back and face, as well as singed up a good amount of her hair which she had to chop off.
[I.D.: a very round frog with stubby limbs covered in dirt sits in a white bowl of dirt with a tiny cricket in front of it. The frog has its mouth open and tongue stuck out and the sounds typed above make it seem as though the frog spit the cricket out because it was gross. /End I.D.]
[id: a digital illustration of a person lying in tall grass. The grass is bright red, drawn in large rough brushstrokes. The person is uncoloured, lying on their side, their head resting on their hands. They have long hair, red eyes (matching the grass), and a shellshocked expression. The writing reads, “there it is again / that funny feeling”]
Better that one day she wakes to find all memory gone, so that she might inhabit this new body perfectly, wanting what she’s always wanted: a whole self without any sense of loss, even as she knows loss would always have come for her.
[ID: A drawing of Coronabeth and Ianthe from The Locked Tomb. Coronabeth is a thin person with tanned pale skin, long wavy golden blonde hair, and purple eyes. She wears a white blouse with ruffled sleeves, a white bow in her hair, blue rings, gray bell bottom pants with a gold trim and an embroidered Roman numeral 3, and a rapier belt. Ianthe is a thin person with very pale skin, long straight blonde hair, one blue and one purple eye, and a gold bone arm. She wears a blue slip dress, a netlike gold necklace, a gold ribcage corset, gray tights, and gold pumps. There is a blue translucent shawl tucked around her forearms. Ianthe smiles and sits perched on a windowsill. Coronabeth is turned towards Ianthe, looking over her own shoulder and smiling at the viewer. There is a gold skeleton border around them. The bottom reads: “Three for the gleam of a jewel or a smile.” The second image is a closeup of the Tridentarii. End ID]
[Image description: a person sitting in a kitchen slicing cherries with a knife. They are wearing a lace veil that covers their face and falls below the table, along with an elaborate ring on the hand holding the knife and a crown made of pearls. End image description]
[ID: A drawing of Camilla and Coronabeth from The Locked Tomb. Camilla is a thin, muscular person with brown skin, dark brown hair in a bob cut and bangs, and brown eyes. She wears a gray turtleneck vest over a short sleeved white shirt, a black chest sword harness, fingerless gloves, black pants, a belt, and brown lace-up boots. She holds a sword in each hand. Coronabeth stands behind Camilla to her right. Corona is a taller, thin person with pale skin, long wavy blonde hair, and purple eyes. She wears rings, a low neck white shirt, a purple jewel necklace, gold corset, rapier belt, black trousers, and black boots. Corona rests one hand on the hilt of her sheathed rapier. She tilts Camilla’s head towards her with her other hand. Camilla furrows her brows slightly. Coronabeth smiles. There is a thin gold border. Rays of light point outwards from a circle behind them. End ID]
[ID: 2 drawings of Arcane characters. In the first, Powder sits cross-legged, fiddling with the robot monkey while Vi braids her hair. In the second, Jinx sits on the floor with Silco on a chair behind her. One of her long, blue braids lies on the floor, and he holds a comb, separating the rest of her hair into 3 sections. End ID.]
[ID: a painting of four black dogs with large, round, and glowing white eyes. they are running through tan field, under a grey and cloudy sky. the painting is stylized, so the dogs appear more like shadows than living animals. End ID]
“He doesn’t get distracted,” said Camilla, as if this had caused difficulties in the past.
[image description: digital illustrations of camilla and palamedes from the locked tomb series. camilla watches palamedes studying from a huge pile of books. he falls asleep while reading and she stands by him with a hand on his shoulder before carrying him, slung over her back, to bed.]
