Strifehart and Fantasy

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I think squall forgets the scar is there most of the time honestly. That’s not to say I think he’s not a little vain (no one who wears three belts and a fur lined leather jacket “doesn’t care” about his looks, let’s be real.) but I think his scar doesn’t really bother him much these days.

HOWEVER, Yuna, Paine and Rikku attacking him with make up for his date with Cloud, would be so real. They cover the scar without even telling him they’ve done it, and he’s not particularly fussed about looking in the mirror to see what they’ve done (he put a ban on over the top make up).

So he rocks up to the date, looking drop dead gorgeous, and he thinks cloud is staring at him because he’s wearing makeup. He kind of worries for a second that they’ve gone over the top, but a quick glance in one of the restaurants mirrors says they haven’t.

He doesn’t notice the scar is gone at all, because obviously Squall had 17 years of see g his face without it.

But Cloud is quiet all night, he keeps stabbing grumpily at his food, and then makes a face like he’s internally fighting with himself and puts way too much effort into acting “normal”.

Eventually Squall has had enough. He asks Cloud what is going on; if he’s done something, and Cloud just mutters “why would you do that to yourself?”

At first Squall is confused, and then he remembers the makeup.

“It’s not a big deal, it’s just make up. You wear it. Why is it different for me?”

Cloud visibly gets frustrated and tries again.

“I don’t care about the make up, you look good… but why’d you cover your scar?”

Squalls brain takes a second to process that, then glances back in the mirror and sees that, yep, the scar is covered completely.

“Does it bother you?”

“No! It’s your face I just… I’ve never really known you with out it, and it- I don’t- it’s your face, if it makes you uncomfortable then it’s your choice to cover it I just- I-“

Squall eventually takes pity on cloud and takes his hand to help him feel more comfortable saying why he’s thinking.

“I just- you’re beautiful with the scar too,”

It actually looks like it pained Cloud to be that sentimental in public, and Squall can’t help smirking at him when he says.

“Would it interest you to know that I didn’t do my make up? Or maybe that I didn’t even realise the girls had covered it?”

Cloud scowls at him and throws a napkin at his face.

Squall catches it easily and makes Cloud look at him.

“I don’t care about my scar. I never really have. I mean I picked at it while it was healing but that’s because I hate itching. Does it freak you out that much?”

“It doesn’t look like you…”

“This is what I used to look like, I didn’t always have it.”

“Yeah well you also didn’t always love me, but you do now and some things are just worth keeping around,”

Squall will never admit that he melts a little.

Original Credit - @fishhfangz VISIT

More Dispatch anti-ICE art!!!

I recieved a lot of love on the last one, thank you guys so much!! These are really fun to make, I entered a flow state making this one while listening to Primer 55.

Here's a sketch based on a suggestion by videogamesarecool! I might actually finish it cause it turned out really good. :)

Cloud glares. “I suppose you would know all about twisting words.”

“I know much. Lies are like a thing that wounds - daggers or claws, direct and with intent,” Squall nodded serenely. “But dishonestly. That is a far more wondrous and devious thing."

Warily, Cloud remained silent, he glanced longingly toward the village shore.

anyway if you get a comment like this, chances are that they are bot and their goal is to do whatever it takes to get you to delete your work, most certainly (from what I’ve heard) it’s because they want to “safely” steal your work, use it to train their ai without you being able to rightfully claim ownership of your work since “there’s no proof that the work was stolen/was posted elsewhere first by you” because the original source has already been deleted.

THEY ARE ALL BOTS. at first it was “ao3 is deleting fics and your entire account will be affected unless you delete the fics yourself” then it was “this work contains contents that are illegal and they have already reported you and your fic to the police” (yes, that’s how desperate these bots are), and now it’s this.

report their comments to ao3 for spam—in this case, specifically, I think you may be able to report them for harassment too—and don’t pay attention to them, most importantly don’t delete your works, don’t feel discouraged by their comments. remember that they are bots and they mass comment something like this on people’s works at random to get people to delete their works. (or even if they’re not bot, they are still pathetic bullies who don’t deserve your time or attention.)

Happy Strifehartween!! 🎃 🐺🐈‍⬛

From Focus, written by LetoaSai (AO3) About the fanarts I made: I’m still a noob drawing animals, please be kind xD. I wanted to draw so much more (like when Sore meet Cloud), but I know my limits, I’m should stop before I reach burnout. I took the opportunity to train crosshatch, so yeah, no special brush, it was just me and my wacom ^^”. All dialogues are from the fanfic. The last drawing tho, was supposed to be the scene after the bath, but I lost the courage to draw another sick Cloud ;A;

There is was many things I’ve been thinking about what to write on this post while I was drawing all this, but now that I’m actually writing the post, almost nothing comes to my mind (why writing is so hard? T^T)

I’m not sure if this post is going to reach the author, I hope it does, because… 

The setting that prevents your work being used to train AI models is turned off by default! I had no idea about this until now! Artists, go to your settings, click “visibility”, and turn on this setting! Protect your work!

Go to your blog (you have to do this for each individual blog) and the visibility tab

It's this last option here

hey peeps, i would be calling your doctors STAT to see if you're in the clear about where your drugs are manufactured

then i would definitely be call your representatives and bitch them a new asshole

people are legit going to die because of this

Which means that calling your reps now may actually make a difference in whether this kills people.

Step 1: Search up the generic name for whatever meds you take, then call your pharmacist - not your primary - and ask where it comes from and whether any part of it is manufactured in the US. THEN call your primary and tell them to pre-order your next round, even if you're not due yet. (They might try to tell you they can't do that. They can.)

Step 2: Call your reps - by now you should be calling them so often they're one of the top numbers saved in your phone, but you can also find them very easily here - and tell them specifically that you are worried about the financial impact on American business this will have and ask them what they plan to do about it. Because sadly, concerns about money and saving their own skin will probably get their attention faster than any concerns about the harm it will do to vulnerable individuals.

Here's a simple way to find a Nexstar channel near you:

Remember the channel you watched Supernatural on?

Or Riverdale?

Or The Vampire Diaries + the spinoffs?

Or the Arrowverse shows?

Well a melbourne community launched an an anti-advertising campaign against him. Listened to find out who was advertising during his show. Then called or emailed those companies to say, "Hey, are you aware that your product/service is being advertised on Kyle Sandilands show? Today, he said [heinous thing]. Is that what your company stands for? Is that what you want to be advertising next to?"

Folks------ advertisers left the radio station in DROVES.

We are talking multiple millions of dollars in advertising that was pulled from the radio station. The radio station is in an absolute crisis about it. Theres talk of firing Sandilands and just paying his contract out, because that will be cheaper than how much theyre hemmoraging from list ad revenue.