#sickbed

Alexander the Great on his Sickbed

Artist: C.W. Eckersberg (Danish, 1783-1853)

Date: 1806

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

Description

sickbed

bears the growing weight of sadness, sheets infected with the ache of touch starvation, the morning haze of lingered spirits that have moved towards brighter satellites. a marred oak frame catalogs pained howls, stores mania like sustenance. this hospice for broken hearts, for the damage rendered from the spell of hope's seductive gaze.

-kab

....And here is MY version of ‘That Scene’! Let’s face it - after the fall of Haven, when our Quizzy passes out in the snow, a romanced Cullen carries her back to camp. We all know it happened. This is a lil fic following Cullen in that time after Inky blacks out. [Also on AO3 here] ====================== “There she is!”

The Seeker called out, but she had no need to. He saw her. She was alive. He didn’t know how she had made it out, but - The Inquisitor’s body went limp. One moment, they could see her, her image obscured but unmistakable as she waded through the snow, pressing against the storm; the next, all at once, the life left her. She fell, and Cullen’s stomach fell with her.

“Fetch a healer!”, he ordered one of the soldiers, the others tailing him as he charged forwards. The snow pushed against his feet like ground in a bad dream, treacherous and near-impossible, but he pushed harder, having no time for anything that could keep him from reaching her before - Beloved Bride of the Maker, please - If this is your Herald -

If - Please. Just please.

First things first, I'm terribly sorry but I couldn't find a better way of finding the next moment, so the quality is HORRIBLE!

If you would like to do your ears and eyes a favor, then please click here and listen from 02:00 to 03:00 (insider tip: search for a secluded corner, make yourself comfortable, put on your headphones, and listen to the whole thing 👂🎧)

The last two spots on this highly personal list of mine should come as no surprise to the ones that know me well. There are two things specifically in Gavin's lore which serve as my god, temple and the holy book. I literally live for these! 🙏🏻

It will get slightly hot, before becoming wholesome.

🎐🎐🎐

#2 That gulping moment

Gav babe was raised by a military officer and then enrolled to the academy by the age of 17, went through the Hell mission and has life and death situations on a daily basis. A sharp blade, the greatest commander, the perfect executioner.

Except for when he is with MC. Then his execution systems stop functioning abruptly and he just gets lost. Thankfully he still handles these predicaments pretty well... Mostly, usually... Sometimes 🐶

WHISPERS ASMR is one of the best products Papergames has given us and the whole thing is a delightful masterpiece from start to finish. No words can describe the feelings this piece gives me.

Spoilers start below this line...

Many of you already know the story. Gavin gets injured, keeps MC uninformed, MC finds out about it from Eli and rushes to the hospital in the middle of the night, finds a weak Gavin on his bed bound by IVs and a hilariously hot exchange commences and by the end they don't sleep before their temperature's dropped.

Besides being a great fan of every single moment of this, the following moment is just special, because we can hear Gavin gulping for the first time, poor baby😅

On the previous spots, I touched upon my obsession with an assertive Gavin. What can round this up perfectly is Gavin realizing what he just did and trying to make a run from it because he is clueless about what to do next, or rather, whether he should actually do what he's planning to do next. The dilemma is killing him and here we can finally hear how he struggles to breathe and just gulps as his Adam's apple escalates up and down. Our birdcop is in such a loss here, it's very adorable, very human and so S1 Gavin (*♡ω♡*)

Here, the mischievous Gavin manages to come up with a smart way of getting MC to move closer to him under the sheets, but after seeing that he's actually succeeded and that she joins him in bed, he literally gulps... HARD! He tries to brush it off with a joking remark "Is this the only way for you to be obedient?" but to no avail because also in this moment his medicine kicks in.

Fortunately, the well trained cool, calm and collected Gavin regroups his wildy scattered thoughts and hormones all over his hypothalamus and gives us the most pleasurable 9 minutes after this.

The full credit goes to Zhang Jie for his excellent performance. He transmits Gavin's dilemma and despair perfectly by solely using his voice. Needless to say the final deep sigh by the end says it all. We are really lucky to have him. Who knows, maybe the new VA pulls this off masterfully. One can only dream amirite?

Oh how I miss these well written, well voiced pieces...

Disclaimer: The video and the subs belong to another user!

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Masterlist

#3 spot

Someone attractive and quite ill, making your bed their sickbed. A miserable, damp sickbed full of used tissues and there's a thermometer hidden somewhere too and everything on it has been sneezed, coughed and sniffled against. A place of pitiful suffering and inevitable contagion, would one try to enter before everything has been washed and aired.