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deinonychus father and chick roosting

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A true story from 1928 with a few artistic embellishments.

(And starring my disaster boys Jack and Al, of course)

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chavis mármol, "untitled destruction project," 2024, nine-ton quarry stone replica of colossal olmec head dropped on blue tesla model 3

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Dungeon Meshi fanart pt.2, this is from October! Miss this show so much, it makes me feel better. I need to finish the manga but I don't have much free time these months

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Look at this excellent ad I got for once

Why yes I think I WILL delight in its exceptional fruit!! Thank you!!

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My cotton ball sprouted wings!

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Top Femslash Ships Bracket - FINALS

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dont know how to get this gunk off my car so ive just been driving lol REALLY bumpy today

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Other races redesigns

I challenge anyone to do this too 🫵 it was fun

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ooo this sounds FUN!! Honestly, even if the superhero school thing has been done before, t really is the characters and their powers that makes it interesting, and these are VERY INTERESTING!!

Snappy's concept has me by the throat! The fact that's such a potentially huge, devastating power, but that he can only do it Once per person so there's zero room for error is so compelling. I could imagine some incredibly tense scenarios springing from that. Also Slips and the sacrifice that must be for her powers, beyond just the funny side

If you wanna tell more, about personalities and plot and such, I'd love to hear!

oooh you said Superpower Story has 30k words? wanna tell us a bit about that?

Ok I know my tags were kind of a leading remark soooo yes absolutely :D

Honestly the premise is just your run-of-the-mill superhero high school setting. A bunch of teens taking classes, learning how to control their powers, working toward becoming government agents or something (that part isn't super fleshed out yet, don't worry about it).

Where the fun comes in is the powers. I tried to make them unique, which is a really tough task given how saturated this genre is so idk if I succeeded, but I'm happy with them. In this universe, powers tend to have sizeable drawbacks, or a catch or trick to them that makes them inconvenient or even debilitating. Sometimes the drawbacks outweigh the power itself, especially if the power isn't that strong, so those kids have to work with specialized teachers to train up the power and minimize the drawback as best they can.

Enter our main cast! From left to right: Slips, Snappy, Chroma, and Lucky.

At this school, everyone gets a nickname. This is so I can avoid giving the characters actual names. The drawings were done by @insomnimelodies who brought all these characters to life so beautifully when I didn't know the first thing about what any of them looked like cause I literally never describe appearances in the story and now I have sketches and I love these goobers so much and I love my talented friends!!!!!!! Ahem. Anyways.

Lucky can control their luck. They can't control the outcome – the luck does what's best for them, not what they want. They also aren't that much luckier than the average person. They can only control when they spend their luck and how much. This allows them to be very successful at small things such as exams or board/video games or instruments without much effort. However, used this way, the power is almost laughably weak compared to their peers. If they want to do anything noteworthy, they have to save up their luck for weeks at a time... which makes them really unlucky in the meantime.

Snappy can enter a person's head at the snap of a finger. Once he's there, he sees an immersive, deeply convoluted mindscape that he can manipulate as he pleases. Time also doesn't pass while he does this – viewed from the outside, the result is instant. In theory, he can completely change a person's knowledge, beliefs, personality, or sense of self in an instant. However, he can only do this once per person. As a result, there is zero room for error. The mindscape is also difficult to interpret, and it takes a lot of data (aka going into many different minds) to figure out patterns and learn to interpret things properly. Going into a person's head unprepared and changing things without knowing what he's doing can have disastrous consequences... Tragic backstory ensues. :(

Chroma sees emotions as colors. Theirs is one of the more potent empath powers around, sometimes to their own detriment. Strong emotions linger in the air around them for years, meaning that in emotionally fraught locations they can't see anything at all. They also don't automatically know what the colors mean, and have spent years deducing the meanings through experience. There's a lot of colors and emotions to keep track of, so some the more complex associations still elude them. Overall, their power is more manageable than many others, so they don't have to take the same remedial classes as the rest of the main cast.

Slips is a clairvoyant. She holds the only known future-seeing power with 100% accuracy, which wins her the (very much unwanted) attention of the school's Evaluators, a group of mysterious and sometimes ruthless overseers who evaluate each student's progress... and their future usefulness to the government. The catch: Slips's predictions are very difficult to control, and to achieve them, she has to surrender her own memories and knowledge. The relevance of the memory or knowledge to the desired prediction, the work put into gaining the knowledge/memory, and its personal importance all play a role in what the prediction is going to be. Getting it right is extremely difficult and might take many tries... if it works at all. As a result, Slips's memory is basically Swiss cheese, and she very much lives in the moment, as much by necessity as by choice.

Together, these four form a tight friend group, and they will eventually become a team of government agents (who are always in teams of 4, shout-out RWBY). Their skills make them poorly suited for combat but very well suited for avoiding combat – covert missions, spying, negotiating, etc. This is when they will start to discover (surprise surprise!) that the government is more nefarious than it seems.

Here's another rendition of them by @insomnimelodies! AAaaAAaAaaAaaaa

I've rambled enough but if anyone wants to hear more, there's a solid supporting cast with equally complicated powers, plus some fun intrigue both written and unwritten. :)

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ragtaggers chap 4 (it's always morning in morningflower)

well, obviously, i would love to see an excerpt from this one

ASK AND U SHALL RECEIVEEEE (ragtaggers my sillies my little goofballs my BELOVEDS......)

The formatting is a bit different, since I mainly write Ragtaggers on my phone!

One of the fun things (and challenges) of the early chapters is that Mare knows *literally nothing* about what's going on, because of his bizarre amnesia. He doesn't know what things are, doesn't know what anything is called, and basically trusts every word out of Kip's mouth. Needless to say, she gets a lot of fun out of that LOL

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For the WIP tag game, would love to hear about an original story! (Is Porcelain King one of those? Sounds very intriguing.)

YESSS Porcelain King is one of my original works!! Usually I talk (and draw) a lot more about my own writing and characters on this blog, it's actually more my default state, and I only sometimes get into fandom stuff.

So, a bit of background! Porcelain King is the first novel in the Alora Chronicles--a fantasy series about a universe where the forces of nature are conditionally immortal god-like entities who secretly walk the mortal world in physical forms. The series centers on these "gods" known as Rift Lords--on their culture, their interpersonal drama and fallout, and the crushing weight of immortality. It's a story about very old, very powerful beings who are still very flawed and human, and it's also a story about some REALLY SWEET SWEET SWORDS

Porcelain King, specifically, is about a guy named Azurifel.

Azurifel used to be a human back in the iron age, until he met the Rift Lord Icellus, force of nightmares (and tbh a genuinely nice guy) and traded his mortality for godhood to become Icellus' apprentice. Now, the thing about Azurifel is that he has so, SO many issues. This guy is a walking dumpster fire of daddy issues and anger issues and pure ego, and he is making it everyone else's problem.

The story of Porcelain King is Azurifel's self-destructive downward spiral over thousands of years. It's partly an exercise in writing a fantasy story in which the big bad villain is the main character, someone you can empathize with but can't forgive, but it's also a study in what happens when a traumatized person doubles down and refuses every offer of help and chance to change, and how that effects their relationships.

He spends the first act of the book trying to tear down this council of gods who took him in after deciding after thousands of years of apprenticeship that he can't stand it anymore, and then spends the second act walking among humanity and eventually deciding to use his power to set himself up as a king of his own empire. The third act is pure spoilers, but it's safe to say he doesn't get better.

I have a lot of art of him on this blog! you can check out the dedicated tags if you wanna see all that stuff

**SPEED EDIT CAUSE I FORGOT TO ATTACH AN EXERPT

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Obviously, my ask is going to be about the miracle of backups. I can’t wait for the fic want to know more about it! this isn’t so much an ask really as much as it is anticipation in written form .

AWW THANK U FRIEND!! I will say I've gotten closer to posting time, I've made some good progress and I've even found some people willing to beta and help me edit! I'm REAL EXCITED for when I can finally post it!!

One of the things I'm really looking forward to dealing with throughout the fic is Maddie's psychological state in the aftermath of season 2. Even though Caspian technically survives in this premise, everything that Maddie's been through--the stress and the grief and the trauma--are still very much still there, affecting her. She goes home and wants things to become normal, but they aren't, because she herself has changed, and it's harder to heal than she wants it to be. ahhh she's such a great characterrrr

Anyways, have a clip! A chunk from an early chapter, with Justine!

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WIP tag game

Tagged by @folded-boats , thank u!!

rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. tag as many people as you have WIPs. People can send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

I don't exactly have a WIP folder, I organize by source material, but here's a sum list of all my open writing projects! A mix of fic and original stuff.

Iterations

The Miracle of Backups

no sleep til london

caspian's homeless arc

the alora lore doc

ragtaggers chap 4 (it's always morning in morningflower)

the unfortunate joys of fatherhood

Porcelain King

Junior Minister of Economics

dusk intro/streetlight

mood drabbles

And yeahhhhh I am not tagging 11 people. Not doin that. But I'll tag in some friends who I know write! @neoduelverse @teacup-of-candlelight @fghniki

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severance is so scary i hope jobs arent real

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STONE AND SKY.