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“let the tiger out”

insp by concept art of rumi and gwi-ma, i love the idea of changing her demon arm so tried my own spin

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Same Pack, Rivaling Herds (DL Pearl Ficlet)

Summary: An tired moment before Pearl has to go home after Double Life. She just needs to lay down. Then she can leave.

Words: 1033

Pearl is exhausted by the time she gets to Scott. She’s been exhausted this whole time, maybe. She’s not sure when she got so ragged. Normally, she’s so careful about her general appearance, about cleanliness and repairing clothes. It’s less about looking good for anyone and more about the way her skin itches when dirt and sweat cling to it. More about not letting cuts get infected and not letting clothes get threadbare.

Read the rest on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/68558691

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I'm gonna be honest I'm a little confused by some of Gem's choices so far this season in regards to Pearl, especially in session 4.

On the one hand she clearly cares about her a lot. She goes crazy when she thinks that people are attacking her and nearly kills Jimmy.

But on the other hand she cuts out so many of their actual interactions. Them talking about what a good teammate Pearl is for defending them after the octokill, her telling Pearl not to go in the arena, her being so happy about Pearl liking the lighthouse. She cut quite a lot of stuff from previous episodes too, like their whole conversation at the end of session 1.

I really can't figure out what she's going for.

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"in the lighthouse, we share a twin bed" so i had to draw it obviously

closeup!! them

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Now that Scar has gotten his multikill I just need to see Jimmy have a crash out arc where he explodes everyone that has ever wronged him and Pearl allowing herself to do a little bit of team betrayal and maybe kill one of her teammates to get a perfect season of the life series

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gem: they are enemies. pearl: are they? they seem very—very nice. gem: yep. they literally tried to kill grian today and you keep forgetting. pearl: tango did! the other two didn't, right? grian: yes! gem: that's the group! you know that you're a villain with me and grian too. just because you're like, out on the outskirts doesn't mean you're a good guy

cut from both gem AND pearl's episodes. i think i'm going insane

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idk if i'm going to finish this design but. bible accurate critter pearl

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i feel like people forget that sometimes characters in fic are written like that because it's a reflection of real life.

people have sex without setting boundaries. people have unprotected sex without talking about their sexual histories or producing recent sti tests. people play with kink without discussing it ahead of time or establishing a safeword. they have anal without 'enough' prep or lube—they may even prefer it like that.

and none of this is really a fantasy. it's all pretty normal. you can feel that it's inappropriately normalised, and you'd probably be right! but it is normalised: one study found that 58% of female undergraduate students on the campus studied had been choked during sex. 20% of those students said that they'd never been asked if it was ok; another 30% said they'd only sometimes been asked if they consented. fully half! (non-paywalled journal article on choking during sex here, including these numbers.) despite a rise in stis of all sorts, condom use is declining. (pdf link to the full text of this study about declining condom use in the us; aidsmap article about an australian study with similar results.)

even when people do talk about things—sex or anything else—they communicate imperfectly. 'yeah, but don't go too far' is consenting and setting a boundary, and also relying that the person you're talking to has the same metric for 'too far' that you do. for some people, 'the trash needs to go out' is a neutral, factual observation; for others, it's a request that the person they're speaking to take out the trash.

even when people understand each other perfectly, people react unpredictably to things sometimes! we behave irrationally! people laugh uncontrollably at funerals, or get angry at the straw that broke their back rather than the enormous load they were already carrying. they get scared and lash out at people trying to help them. when hurt, most people do not instinctively reach for therapy-approved grounding exercises and 'i feel' statements.

pretty much any bad choice that characters could conceivably make is a choice that people make in real life, on purpose, all the time. people do things that can have catastrophic, life-changing effects because it felt like a good idea at the time, or they're leaning into the vibe, or they just didn't think about it all that much, or an infinite number of other reasons.

fiction isn't intended as a guide on the best, safest, and most responsible ways to live your life, and fanfic isn't any different. it's not a narrative flaw to let characters do things that are messy or harmful or downright stupid—it's a reflection of what people are actually like, and not something that authors should feel they have to apologise for.

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'Ride With Me' (2024) was a hit single recorded and released for Huntr/x' world tour.

Its lyrics center on teamwork, helping each other reach new heights, and celebrating friendship.

A common misconception, this single was not in fact hastily conceived as an excuse for the author to design racing jackets to match Rumi's outfit in the movie.

Additional doodles that didn't make the cut

WIPs (added more content to previous post)

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PS shout out to the Huntrix black room discord for being bros while i lose my mind about this jacket

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what species are they? sorry I stacked them

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go my doggy

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MIRA Q&A PT.2

ZOEY APPEARED!!! 💕🥹 I wonder where are they going to have lunch later!

And oops guess who is in the chat!

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It’s a day off and demon Rumi decided to vacuum.

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I'm know this is already been made several times, but

Is she- you know... purple...

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pearls past life has honestly been so chill. she is somehow never at the scene of the crime. She wanders around picking flowers and taming dogs and being so pleasant to be around that she really isn’t on bad terms with anyone. literally unbothered flourishing in her lane

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pearls past life has honestly been so chill. she is somehow never at the scene of the crime. She wanders around picking flowers and taming dogs and being so pleasant to be around that she really isn’t on bad terms with anyone. literally unbothered flourishing in her lane

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made a little poster for the podcast because i loved this bit way too much

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