Please click here for best quality. On A03 | WIP.
This was supposed to be a little sketch tribute that predictably turned into a tiny monster. Dx Thanks to Demi, Hana and OBQ for the extra push!
Inspired by Emrys Ascending by tricksterity, which I enjoyed tremendously. (Please please please update soon please. *grovels*)
Uh… hello? He muttered in his mind.
Merlin Emrys! I- what are- what an honour! The Hat stuttered, and Merlin suppressed a laugh.
The honour is all mine, he replied. So… sort me, I guess.
But where to put you? You possess every quality of each house in massive quantities, you would easily belong in any house you wished! It squeaked out.
So you mean that I can just choose any house? You’re not going to sort me? He asked it.
I-Well, I didn’t exactly mean that, the Hat stuttered again.
Let’s start from the bottom then, shall we?
Tag: this is glorious
i just saw someone with their blood type in their tumblr bio like what??? like the paramedics are gonna be like “quick check her tumblr account”
London Comic Con October 2013
Hot fucking DAMN Assassins from all over the world and a shitton of different time periods?!
Rifle Assassin in the third gif could get it so hard.
NOW I WANNA DO A MEXICAN REVOLUTION ASSASSIN OMFG
COWBOY ASSASSIN THO
SOLDIER ASSASSIN THO
OK, can I say I love this not just because of the variation of time periods and the awesome shooting but because all of the assassin cosplayers are visually different
not only is there a good amount of women in there, but also everybody has a lot of bodily variation and different silhouettes, they’re cosplayers, REAL PEOPLE dressing up rather than video game people or specifically-cast models or actors picked to look a certain way, so we get so much more of an organic variety.
And it doesn’t matter if ANYONE thinks they don’t look ‘right’, when you’re shot this way, when you work it, when you’re confident, you can be of any body type and you will always look awesome.
Beyblade fic scraps: Boarding School AU
I had a Beyblade ficlet I was going to post today, but then I went to look something up while editing and turns out I remembered the timing of things in the episode completely wrong and characters are not where I thought they were so it doesn’t work at all. (At least this one I might be able to salvage and rewrite. I did this a month or two ago and that one will have be scrapped for parts.)
So instead please accept some fragments and scenes from an AU I was fiddling around with that was probably always doomed for lack of plot. It has goodnight kisses.
ok but real talk the worst part of the first avengers movie is the bit where Steve is all like “tony you’re not a team player” and then when Tony goes into the wormhole and everyone says “close the portal” even though tony is still in it and you know that if Tony hadn’t made it back out then they would have mourned him and they would have been super sad but they would have lived with it. But if it was anyone else-if it was cap or hulk or clint or thor or widow in the wormhole then tony would not have closed the portal until they were back. he would have kept it open no matter what. and if he had to close it? if whoever it was didn’t make it back out? Tony would never have forgiven himself. ever. you know what he’s like. he would have just died a little bit more, and it would have driven him further into his own little self-hatred where he cant escape the past. don’t tell me that tony isn’t a team player. everything he does is for the team. he just doesn’t know how to team. help him.
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