And the universe said "Oh god, not this guy again"

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Charles | Grian & Ryan | GoodTimesWithScar, Charles | Grian/Ryan | GoodTimesWithScar Characters: Charles | Grian, Ryan | GoodTimesWithScar, Rendog (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, of the vaguely DnD inspired variety, God Scar, Paladin Grian, except Grian DOESN’T know that at all, Winged Charles | Grian, rather decidedly against his will in fact, The Watchers (Evolution SMP) - Freeform, Non-Consensual Body Modification, some blood and violence, Lamplight AU Series: Part 1 of stained glass sunlight Summary:

The Watchers had seemed so nice, is the thing. So… disarmingly hospitable.

When they’d set out for the ruins, they’d gone in search of some magical beasts reportedly plaguing the area, according to the flyer they’d taken. What they’d found instead was an empty city and a group of mages and scholars studying… something. They’d been cagey about what. Certainly not the history of the place— the Watchers arrived long after the fall of Dogwarts, content to live and work inside the city’s corpse with no special reverence for the grave it lay ruined in. They had no stake in its fall, or its future, or the preservation of its once-hallowed legacy— but its bones, certainly, served as protection enough for their studies.

The beasts were the only thing troubling the Watchers’ work, or so they’d said. Strange, then, that Grian and his party never once saw a trace of them.

How long after, until his friends realized Grian was gone? That they weren’t safe?

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Two decades ago, the city of Dogwarts met its demise. Today, a traveler meets a god wearing the mask of a merchant, looking for a miracle.

Flowey is a close friend of mine and has been working on this for quite a bit, ever since i told them the desert duo plot idea i had. i said i didn’t have the time or energy to write myself, and Flowey is insane so they went “hey what if i did it” and now you have 9k words of lamplight scarian and counting

i gave Flowey some bones of a plotline, and they’ve made it their own in a really fun and interesting way. it’s running concurrent w Lamplight and canon to the AU, but the plot’s basically all their own. their writing is always absolutely gorgeous and really fun to read, so i’m really excited abt this whole thing. i hope you guys enjoy this!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Look Outside (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lyle/Sam (Look Outside) Characters: Sam (Look Outside), Lyle (Look Outside), Minor appearances from Leigh and Joel Additional Tags: Flawed Ritual Ending (Look Outside), Cursed Sam (Look Outside), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Body Horror, body image issues, Self-Esteem Issues, Issues. Lots of them. Like in general., I had to exorcise this from my brain immediately after finishing the flawed ritual ending, Man Sam was there for so many people during all this what if someone was there for him would that be fucked up or what, The samlyle is requited but not exactly directly addressed by either of them, Parallels to Lyle’s own monster transformation Summary:

Sam had gasped, then, like a drowning man suddenly coming up for air. He had twisted himself free, staggering, stumbling, unseeing, bracing himself on the back of the sofa and leaving thick red handprints in the upholstery. Leigh had been fumbling for the light, and when she found it on the seventh try Lyle had bit down hard on a scream that had threatened to claw its way from his throat as the overwhelming brilliance pierced through him. He felt overexposed.

She had slid down against the wall, wheezing out a hysterical sound that might have passed for a laugh in another life. Joel had folded himself up underneath the kitchen table like a frightened animal, curled in on himself a dozen times over. And Sam had staggered to the bathroom to wash the blood from his eyes.

And there, inside, after a pause that seemed to suck the oxygen from the whole of the apartment, Sam had started to scream.

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The ritual was a failure. Now there is only Sam, and the mirror, and Sam and the mirror, and the thing that isn’t Sam anymore in the mirror staring back at him.

Look outside (mostly Sybil) sketches/doodles

Guilty

Based off the fact that lyle will downplay his battle injuries

PUBLIC STONING OF LYLE! TOMARROW MORNING, 10AM!!!

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Whatever. Go my doomed horror yaoi.

So like what if Lyle was, indeed, Cringefail Pathetic (as we all love him for), but its due to Sam actually being more openly into him and Lyle fumbling HARD.

Look Outside but if Sophie knocked on Lyle's door first This was supposed to be just a silly "what if" but ngl... this duo is growing on me... (transcription under the cut)