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My conduct this year landed me on Santa Claus's fabled and controversial "Kill-at-all-Costs" List. Turns out the reason the big man and his people don't exercise that option more often is that they really aren't good at following through on it. Well outside their core competency. He's delegated to the elves, and they've got this ingrained assembly-line mindset that doesn't translate at all to the adaptable and fluid mindset needed for siege breaking. They just haven't adjusted their playbook at all from when they're doing rote deliveries. Armed Elves have been rappelling down my chimney one at a time into the roaring fire I've kept going nonstop for the last week. They haven't even thought to try my front door yet. Whole house smells like peppermint, which it turns out is what burnt elf meat smells like. Thought I was being super clever putting cyanide-laced almond milk out with the cookies as a last line of defense, but none of them have made it even the scant few feet to the side table where that's sitting. At the rate things are going the real danger is that I'm gonna forget what I did with that and accidentally drink it myself while I'm watching the show

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a boyfriend is just a guy you can sink your teeth into for recreational purposes

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ANOTHER INSTALLMENT LETS GOO

I adore this group so much i LOVE them. And the car situation has gotten MORE out of hand and now there's more of a narrative for this little adventure lol.

Jacquie definitely pulled everyone together to go out one night specifically because she has never hung out with these specific people all in one group before and wanted to see what would happen >:)

And Killian offers to steal a car from a dealership lot for them to use, like a GENTLEMEN. And everyone assumes, given that he offered to steal one and him being DOUBLE everyone's age, that he knows how to drive. So, he puts himself in the driver's seat and everyone is cool with this until they WERENT. Until they nearly end up in the god damn river.

Idk how Jacquie got onto the roof, but it ended up helping her and she and Mel had to throw handfuls of magic around to help them NOT go into the canal. And then Kills was BANNED from the driver's seat and Elle took over for the rest of the night.

And they do all get drunk later that night and end up forgetting about the car entirely and probably getting into heaps more trouble.

Have you ever seen all of our OC's in one room? Well now you have! I was thinking about a potential collab and then inspiration took over for once in a lifetime lol. I think this has two black cats and two golden retriever energy? Maybe? idk but I hope I clocked everyone's vibes correctly.

Elle belongs to @shittyelfwriter, Mel belongs to @kscribbs, and Jacqueline belongs to @safyresky. Rants under the cut!

I don't know how much of a friend group this really is, depending on how friendly Kills is that day, but it was super fun to roll around the group dynamic in my head.

I truly have no idea how functional this group actually is together, y'all are gonna have to collaborate your thoughts here, but as OVERPOWERED as they all are, the braincell situation is yet to be determined.

Also, this is the second time I've drawn Killian driving a car, which is kinda funny to me since he canonically cannot drive. Straight up doesn't know how, and yet he has been in charge of the motor vehicle twice now lol.

The group therapy idea SENT ME because EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE BITCHES has the most horrible trauma and ya put 'em in a room together and it sets EVERYONE back. They come out WORSE than when they went in.

In the very first image, Mel does have a book in her hand, but Elle is blocking the whole thing 😔. It was gonna be the How to be a "Bad Bitch" three volume collective set.

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I saw that same post earlier and FELT MY GUY. I literally don't consider the series canon WHATSOEVER. I have removed it from my mind, and since it's not canon to me, im always morbidly curious as to how in what ways it will fuck everything up lol.

It's like a car crash, I gotta keep looking at it until the ambulance pulls away you know?

saw scenes from the series AGAIN, am re-infuriated AGAIN, fandom wank under the CUT

grrr i am BITING at the BARS of my CAGE I HATE how PREFORMATIVE everything WAS I DISLIKE that it is in LIMBO I live in FEAR every DAY that a season 3 will be announced and they will IMMEDIATELY EVISCERATE THE CHARACTERS THEY HAVE YET TO TOUCH (i am talking about the millers, specifically lucy, and jack) I HOPE WE NEVER EVER EVER SEE THEM IN THE SERIES I HOPE THE SERIES NEVER COMES BACK GRR GRRR GRRR

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"You wanna know what I think?" He asks rhetorically, bitterly, putting out the cigarette box and lighter from his pocket. Jack doesn't say anything. They both sit there on the cold snow, surrounded by night, thoroughly exhausted and in pain just about everywhere from the fight. Letting their wounds settle and fester, the bruises and sprains already throbbing. He doesn't say anything. He's already said enough. He only watches as Killian takes a long, therapeutic drag, smoking half the damn cigarette in one go before letting the smoke loose. It takes another moment before he answers his own question. "I think you're a coward." Jack's expression falls, almost disappointed, nodding dejectedly and turning back to stare at the ground by his feet. "And you know what? That will always be worse than any 'bad person' you could be. Worse than any 'villain' you want to be." He takes another long drag and his eyebrows pinch together, a look of regret casted to the sky, "And I was a coward too." Jack picks his head up in morbid curiosity. He watches Killian staring up at the sky, the moonlight watching them both, sitting and breathing and not much else but looking so contrite. And so ashamed. He doesn't look away, he is unable to and tries finding something else to say, anything at all. But he ends up just staring at him, at a loss, nearly impressed, also regretful.

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only the characters who cause the most severe brainrot receive this honour 🙈❄️ (credit once again to @calware for the amazing template 🥰)

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*covered in blood* I'm literally fine guys. im still funny. Would you like to hear a joke Im going to tell you a joke

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I got hoes hitting me over the head with wine bottles

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Gonna just put this attached to the chapter, but here's some old doodles of our beautiful Nadene! Mama B!

The document with all of his parents was a victim of the great Hard Drive Crash earlier this year, but I have some crusty screenshots of Mrs. Buchanan. Love her, STAN HER ❤️🧡💛

....Heyyyy. Hows it going guys? How long as it been? Over a year? Huh. Honestly? Did not expect today of all days to be the one where this shit gets posted.

So, A LOT of shit has happened since the last chapter update and I will be elaborating about where Chance and Choice has been, a personal update as to why it hasn't been updated and where it's going in the future!

Best to take this from the top. The two main life things that have happened over the past year are:

My old hard drive CRASHED OUT ON ME. I lost a good chunk of my art, images, and other things I kept on that thing. There are some drawings I am STILL salty I will never get back INCLUDING the god damn CC story outline! And my notes for the fucking magic system! Both of those intrinsic pieces were lost earlier this year, STILL big mad about it

I moved house in the middle of this year! It was out of my childhood home which made the move a lot harder, but also took up literally so much of my time outside of my 9 to 5.

And to add to those, I have also been really struggling with an ✨insecurity spiral✨ regarding my writing and my art. I was doing the big No No and comparing myself to what other people have been doing. I am trying to be better! And I'm trying not to do it as much, it's a work in progress.

But I do want to hopefully continue Chance and Choice! I really want to finish it to say that I wrote a multichapter fic and to get this story I wanna tell out there. So, I will be sparsely continuing in the future, just whenever a new chapter happens, there won't be any schedule, it's just on a Whenever I Get To It basis.

For now, though chapter 11 is here! We have Jac trying to kill Lucy again, Lucy being SASSY to him, Bernards family (!) and the man in the moon ruining more shit! Thank you for those who have stuck around, please enjoy!

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The return of doodle dumps!! We got a RANGE of goodies here but kinda divided between The Killian page and The Lucy page (my two FAVORITE REDHEADS!)

I havent been able to finish a lot of stuff/concepts and render out sketches lately but this should be good enough for now!

LADY KILLS MY BELOVED AHHHH!!! God I love this woman, she is everything to me.

There is a concept floating around about Chimera and Lucy dragging him around with them in this form for ✨Ladies Night✨. My gut says that he's stuck like that temporarily and I don't know if they caused it JUST for this one girl's night but they're taking advantage you best BELEIVE

Killian has been the blorbo in the golden frame above my fireplace recently lol. He is squirreled away in my heart and in my soul.

Now he doesn't actually NEED an accursed blade because he hardly fights with generic weapons as it is (just fisticuffs, magic and broken bottles baby), but I found a cool piece of armor for him, so it seemed fitting.

AND LUCYYYY!!! She is right next to kills in her own frame above the hearth, I adore this girl, hope nothing bad happens to her 🙃

Cowboy Lucy is actually from a little mini story I'm brainstorming as a piece for a little mini-series that I'm calling: "Jack and Lucy's Big 'ol Time Adventure Mindfuck"

(No, I have Not settled on a shorter name, and I am terrified that the longest possible option is sticking)

It's a classic time adventure where they're just getting chucked around different timelines and universes LIKE:

Cowboy times! The Return of the Scourge!

1920's jazz club murder mystery

The timeline where Jack never existed!

Possibly the one where the Man in the Moon WINS! Final Boss pt.2!

And including the visit to The Bad Ending Universe, that'll be in there too. Ya know, whenever I WRITE ANY OF THOSE

Yall get a small Blinter as a treat too

And tired ass totally-done-with-your-shit college student Lucy is a whole MOOD. She took a gap year after high school and then went for her bachelors or master's in psychology.

But what she DOESNT have the time nor energy for is her most annoying friend calling her up for the most PETTY shit DURRING FINALS WEEK! Its only during finals crunch time that she really flips a switch and starts getting spicy with people, any other time in the school year she's peaches and keen.

And Chimera, poor little meow meow. Young Chimera, probably maybe a year or two old here? So young, already been through SO much shit (also need to get my ass in gear about writing THAT one. She gets to stick it to her fucking abuser and it RULES)

And I think that scar around her neck is staying! Well see as time passes but I like the story it has. Maybe she covers it up with makeup or a glamor or soemthing idk.

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Had to do a double take when I saw MYSELF on my own dash fucking HILARIOUS. And it also reminded me of another scenario i thought of after i posted that update lol

You bet your sweet ASS I am going out there and frolicking!! It's prime frolicking conditions! Thanks @snowqueenjacqueline phenomenal work

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Gloves too thin...

You bet your sweet ASS I am going out there and frolicking!! It's prime frolicking conditions! Thanks @snowqueenjacqueline phenomenal work

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You bet your sweet ASS I am going out there and frolicking!! It's prime frolicking conditions! Thanks @snowqueenjacqueline phenomenal work

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Being obsessed with your own ocs is so so good for you i seriously can't recommend it enough

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"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

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Jack: Okay, how many of you have played an instrument before? Killian: Do instruments of torture count? Jack: No.. Lucy: Is mayonnaise an instrument? Jack: No Lucy, mayonnaise is not an instrument Lucy: *Raises hand again* Jack: Horseradish is not an instrument either

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So, I was going to post this tomorrow, but the delightful bout of first snow today changed my mind! Milf Jacquie MILF JACQUIE MILF JACQUIE!!! But with a different flavor!

The idea of First-Born-Jacqueline-Gets-The-Curse has been my latest niche hyperfixation. I had WAY too much fun with this design session so I'm gonna word vomit under the cut ALL ABOUT this new snow queen for the new age

Just some general designy things:

Sketches! Straight from the sketchbook! The criteria I was given was her vibe leaning more towards Frostmas Jacqueline with a hint of Snow Queen.

But I personally wanted to see how much of a snow theme I could manage and how often id be able to keep her puffy sleeves! I don't know why that's Jacqueline's signature feature in my head, but it's the identifier I stuck with.

And when Milf Jacquie was first appearing there was talk of an ice collar and my first thought was that it seemed too villain coded for her. But in THIS AU where she really is the villain it's very fitting! Tried incorporating that in some places

And now some REALLY rapid-fire points on ALL the designs:

1) I wanted to try something REALLY different with her sleeves as a play on her default medieval style sleeves. And I tried keeping a lot more of her usual aged up details in this one (puff sleeve details, tall boots, eta.)

2) Accidentally more Elsa leaning than intended but mostly paying off of her usual icicle bodice in a different format.

3/4) Both of these are leaning heavily into the general Snow and Snow Queen vibe. And that HUGE fur collar on this and some others isn't actually fur! I'd like to think it's like super soft puffy snow.

5) This one is playing it REAL safe in the Frostmas territory, kinda like some of the Fem!Jack versions, as those also helped with designing her.

6) NOW THIS is a leather body suit just as a wild card just because I liked it! The gloves are giving vibes of this first frostmas piece from AGES ago

7) Were still playing around with sleeves and now mesh! It's probably up there as one of my personal favorites

8) Is very classic as I had to get a bare bones "suit" in there, but then I thought, "What if thigh highs?" And they probably should've been all one color, but thigh highs are a definite YES

9) Another personal fave, I decided to take Milf Jacquie's skirt, caplet thing and run with that concept into tailcoats! Give her an ice collar and the puff sleeves and she's ready to razzle dazzle!

10) Kinda a more "feminine" play on a normal suit but keep the concept of open legs from the last one and use frost as the lace!

11) This one accidently ended up more 60's inspired than I thought? It's reading more casual house wear, but all the vibes are still very there! The thigh highs strike again >:)

12) And the very last one is a different play on the pantsuit thing, with more frost to cover the titties but with incorporated gloves! Those little shits go alllll the way up its one whole thing!

This was a whole thing in the making for a WHILE but i guess I've just been really focused on Ice Fashion lol. Call me a goddamn fantasy designer, if anyone in Crystal Springs needs one hit me up!