#AR event

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

ISIS flag. Someday Republicans will stop campaigning on hatred for the Muslim world. Republican rhetoric has consequences.

Trump is blaming it on criminals that he claims Biden let into the country but the driver was born in the US and had served in the army with a deployment to Afghanistan. His brother claims he was likely radicalized here in the US and possibly was a lone wolf not acting under orders.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

If only there had been 300 “good guys with guns” on scene…

🤦‍♀️🤦🤦‍♂️

[hiddencarpet]

Sike i got sick so i decided to finish yet another artwork with my halfbroken pen

Mr Lee and young Waai Fu as i need more art where he takes care of her as she grows up.🙏

+inspiration:

Screenshot source: anime ed of Last Exile. Ps. Please do not treat this as some recommendation. I watched it like a decade ago and remember little of it. I remember i liked it as a teen but i take 0 responsibility if you watch it and it's bad. I just like the pose.

another insp, artist @/taiki99 from twitter. (the idea to cover the white background with an extra detail)

[specialagentartemis]

Coming skidding in just under the wire for @boombox-fuckboy’s Fiction Podcast Zine September!

This was an idea I had since the zine event was announced, but it felt very personal and I didn’t quite know how to go about making it. But I did want to reflect on what fiction podcasts have Meant To Me. And my delicate emotional state during 2020, lol.

Plain text transcription:

Cover: The Podcasts That Got Me Through COVID Lockdown.

Spread 1: In 2020, I was part of the lockdown contingent. [Drawing of a house] I chose a Masters Degree project I could do from my parents' basement, 2000 miles away from my university. I attended my MA graduation ceremony on Zoom in my dining room.

The loneliness and disconnection in ars PARADOXICA spoke to me. I recognized myself in Sally Grissom: asexual, of course; lonely; throwing myself into my research; clinging to friends far away. [A drawing of a brown-haired woman in a blue sweater, hunched over, writing.]

(I cried over Sally Grissom in the park.)

Spread 2: I lived - and locked down - in Metro Boston: not Boston proper, but close enough. I would go for a walk every morning, and the familiar Boston skyline greeted me. [Drawing of the Boston skyline including iconic buildings like the Prudential Center and the John Hancock Building.]

During this time, when my whole world shrank to a few blocks around my house and the park down the road, Greater Boston made me feel connected to the city, to the diversity of it, to the places so familiar to me, to my home.

(I cried over Michael's letters in the park.)

Spread 3: The comedy and tragedy, the surrealism and all-too-real groundedness of Arden [drawing of a blood splatter and a magnifying glass] took me on an emotional journey through just about every feeling there is, some of them really intense. [Drawing of a house on fire.]

But even the normal parts - going to work, parties, air travel - felt distant and surreal, and the ridiculous parody subscription service ads felt way too real. [Drawing of a box with a pair of green socks in it, a reference to a classic Arden ad.]

(When Brenda mentioned going out to a bar with coworkers for drinks after work, I cried. In the park.)

Back: Thank you to podcasts

for making me feel seen and understood,

making me feel connected and grounded,

and giving me an outlet for my feelings

during that insane and hectic and scary year.

[olessan]

a lingering glare in passing (��'̀-'́)ง (ง'̀-'́)ง

[ars-daemonum]

Some VR photos from a recent avatar! The Digimon RP I'm in has gotten super interesting, and something may or may not be planned with my character involving this..

[takaraphoenix]

Polympians Event!

Clarifying right off the gate: This does NOT mean exclusively Percy x poly Olympians, it means any god/Percy ship.

EDIT: I made a sideblog for the event: @polympians-event

EDIT 2: Here's the link to the AO3 collection!

What is the Polympians Event?

What I have in mind is an open event for any and all god/Percy ships. You ship Percy with only one god? Fill the prompts with only that ship! You sail many different god/Percy ships? Fill each prompt with a different ship, if you want! A full Percy/Olympians poly ship, OT3 or any poly constellation? Primordial gods, titans or non-Olympian gods? Any god(s)/Percy ship goes!

I've seen, in recent years, that god/Percy ships have gained quite some traction and I love that, so much. But while there are bigger ships that do have their own events, there are also the tiny rarepairs that don't get these chances, and even with the bigger ones, not everyone has the time/energy to participate in all their ships' events. So one blanket event, where the biggest of god/Percy ships and the rarest of god/Percy ships are equally welcome.

Are there rules to this?

Yes, but only the most basic. No ship bashing or harassment of other participants. The event is open to all god/Percy ships, which means people will participate with your NOTPs too. Don't like them? Don't read them. Instead, focus on the new content to your own ships! If you can't be a civil, normal person about this, then this event isn't for you.

Whether you want to write smut or not is entirely up to you, but you ought to tag appropriately!

What's the plan?

I chose the dates of the Lightning Thief quest for this event! Meaning it will run from May 28th (Percy waking up at CHB) to June 21st (Percy returning the Master Bolt and Helmet).

That length works out well for there to be 12 prompts, and you would have two days to post each prompt, plus an additional 13th prompt on the last day, to keep with the theme of the Olympians.

I'll get an AO3 collection started to which you can submit your entries on AO3 and, if there would be interest in it, I could start a sideblog specifically for this event to which entries (with proper ship tags so you can filter out your NOTPs) will be reblogged as a signal boost.

What are the prompts?

May 28th/29th: Roman

May 30th/31st: wedding/marriage

June 1st/2nd: The sea does not like to be restrained

June 3rd/4th: family focus

June 5th/6th: jealous/possessive [god]

June 7th/8th: role-swap AU (god!Percy/demigod![god])

June 9th/10th: Modern AU/no powers

June 11th/12th: metamorphosis/shapechange

June 13th/14th: godly gifts

June 15th/16th: Aphrodite ships it

June 17th/18th: Percy accepts godhood

June 19th/20th: yearning/pining

June 21st: Mythology

And because I'm bad at phrasing short prompts, here some explanations on what I had in mind with them, though you are of course free to interpret them in whatever manner you read them!

Roman: could mean the Roman aspect of the god, a Roman!Percy AU, or whatever else you want to make of it!

family focus: Are Percy and the god married with children of their own? Percy as step-parent to campers? The god meeting Sally, Paul and/or Tyson?

metamorphosis/shapechange: the gods have a track-record of turning people into animals or plants. Does this mean full animal, or catboy/other hybrid? Is this angst or fluff?

godly gifts: magic powers granted to Percy, or literal physical gifts to court, or something else?

Aphrodite ships it: Aphrodite as wing-woman, hyping and helping, can also very much include Aphrodite/Percy since she would be her own biggest shipper

Mythology: could be a mythological AU where Percy takes on a role from the past, or specific elements of a tale that recur, anything

Let me know if you're interested so I know I won't be hosting this just for myself!

[sleepboysummer]

penny and ezra lamb are like violet and klaus baudelaire if they were evil

[aashiyancha]

A bit of winter fun in Rigbarth part 1 of 2

(And as usual, here's the link to the archive if you would like to read from the beginning)

[gladiatorcunt]

I CAN GIVE IT ALL TO YOU BABY... a gladiatorcunt production 𖤐 18+ MDNI 𖤐 will include nsfw & dead dove/dark content 𖤐 come celebrate with likeminded cult members individuals 𖤐 XIV (14) nights only! 𖤐 BYOCD (bring your own ceremonial dagger) 𖤐 free kiss on the forehead at the stone door! xxx ...CAN YOU GIVE IT ALL TO ME?⋆｡ﾟ

- MIZUMONO +

🥩 - off anon moodboard based on ur blog and vibes

❤️‍🔥 - astrology matchup

🏰 - send your fictional or celebrity crushes and i’ll put them on a tier list (or send 3 for a FMK)

- WON'T YOU BAPTIZE MY MIND JUST ONE MORE TIME?

🦇 - send me a character(s) + trope/au/kink(s) for a nsfw (dead dove or not) drabble

🪦 - send me a character(s) + specifically a horror or monsterfucker trope/au(s) for a nsfw (dead dove or not) drabble

- DRACULA DAILY!

bonus:

🥀 - to hear my opinion on something, want to be mutuals/you’re already a mutual and want to get closer, ask me for advice, or to just to chat about smth!

reminder to check my pinned for rules & that i’m taking commissions!

[ungodlysaltyinfrastructure]

Hey… so uh… Alux witnessing his mother die in front of him, anyone?

Aha. So um. I inexplicably went missing on tumblr...

Why? I tried deleting an experimental side blog I didn't need/want, and because I don't know how tumblr works, I had actually deleted my main account (Note to self, never venture off into the account settings, WITHOUT CHECKING WHICH BLOG IM ON) I was devastated about it, but, it may have been a good thing for me, question mark? I had been embroiled in toxic queer discourse (aphobia sucks), and it took a toll on my mental well-being. So I took this unfortunate deletion of my work as a sign to relax a bit, despite the pit of panic that formed when this happened. Luckily, I'm better! (again >_>) and I still love Alux Rising, so here I am, making my grand return! back at it again with more way too long character analysis!

I would've posted about my abrupt leaving of tumblr sooner as I was eager to explain everything, but then AR 14 dropped soooooooooooo

Okay. Ar 14. Just made me incredibly happy. A major thing that had been missing for me was actual depictions of Alux as a child. He goes on about how his childhood was rough, but we never actually got to see such. Only the aftermath of such childhood with his relationship to Elric.

Now that we've seen it,

Oh God. It explains, a lot. I always thought Alux acted weird, so much so that I started to theorize that he was *actually* autistic/ASD (More Asperger's Syndrome but that term is no longer used)

But now…

I still hold firm in my Autistic Aro Alux Headcanon, but now his “lack of character” makes more sense to me.

It's made out that Alux's lack of character was prominent in his childhood, as his mother says that one day, he'll learn to like whatever he likes, and he'll be his own person, inferring that he doesn't understand that yet as a child. That's really intriguing to me. Apparently, his blandness was apparent in his childhood, and now in his adulthood. And it seems that the only thing he fully knows how to do, is to help people. If this lack of uniqueness to his character was in his childhood, then maybe the fact that Alux is bland is a defining character trait for him. One that will be overridden by this developing story of Alux rising. (Aha! Character development!)

Now, in relation to Alux and his parents.

It seems like he followed his mom more than his dad. That's why he brings her up in his and Elric's argument, and why he says “I like what you like!” and “I want to be just like you” To her in the memory.

And upon further rewatching, my heart just broke.

In the memory, Alux's mom says “But remember to be the best version of yourself, and to treat others how you want to be treated.”

How does Alux treat others currently? *He constantly helps them. protecting them, making sure they're OK.*

*sigh*...

Ok.

I'm really glad that we got this flash back. It actually helps put some character into Alux (even if it being trauma) and his lack of reaction to a lot of things makes much more sense. Even after the whole flashback, his lack of talking about the memory for why he had such a strong reaction feels very realistic considering the circumstances.

Another thing I realized, when Alux snaps out of it, the surrounding magic of green crystals is the orchids. I'm crying.

It most definitely seems like witnessing his mother's death stunted Alux's mental development to a degree, mostly in the sense that he doesn't fully know who he is, what he wants, or what he likes with what seemed to be his only supporting figure in his life now gone. If he still had his mother, maybe he would've turned out differently. (Wow shocker, I know.)

And honestly, we all knew Alux was traumatized, but I did not expect it to be to THIS extent. I just thought his mom died of an illness, and he wasn't there to see it but she was gone.

I was. SO WRONG.

Dead wrong. One could say.

Like Alux's mom- *cough*

anyways- yea Alux's nickname should definitely be Horny, Professor Red- oops, sorry *GEARS* comes up with the best nicknames, in fact he should become president and deliver every presidential speech in his rhyming scheme.

Oh and James is not dead,

Apparently.

[boymanmaletheshequel]

I see…

I see Lord Ares in the men of the military, brave souls, handsome souls, many of whom have the urge to fight for righteousness, not all are justified, but the ones that are, are the most beautiful men that can exist

I see Lord Ares in the violent rage I feel upon seeing injustice, cruelty, and suffering inflicted by corrupt and evil militias, agaisnt the innocent civilians on the sidelines.

I see Lord Ares in the urges I feel to harm those who have hurt me, to those who have harmed my freinds, and my family, the nazis, the fascists, the racists and all of the bigots of the world, I feel ares in me when i look at them, and wish to see them slide dead off my sword.

I see Lord Ares in the valor of fighting for what’s right, the activists, the protesters who throw themselves into the battle to fight for justice, the Palestinians, the Houthis, the Irish UN workers who bravely stood up to Israeli Zionist tanks last week.

I see Lord Ares in the aftermath of it all, in the corpses that litter the streets of war zones, too many women and children, not enough the enemy. And I see him in the mourning of the families of the fallen, the inevitable consequences of conflict made aware to them in its settling dust, and I know how bittersweet it must all be, to me, to him, to everyone.

[legendaryfugitives]

Dropping this potential meme, draw your squad, or draw from certain media or your Ares and Athena challenge here. Go wild people!

[sesamenom]

Reverse Gondolin AU family portrait

[kheprriverse]

Really needed to get lore out of my head, but also wanted to draw a silly thing because I can’t escape these two.

Plus it’s good practice for me to work on random events. And maybe next time I’ll mess with csp’s tone layer feature more, see what I can do with it, or at least see how it works with my style.

Also the higher resolution of these two pages is gonna be what you can (hopefully) expect for the main comic. Its a much larger canvas size than I usually work on (at least two times as large I think). Just so I can fit in more details and also still be able to use my fav brush on smaller panels. Even if it kills my poor laptop lmao, it’s a small price to pay.

Also more about this post, I wasn't sure if I wanted to officially drop info on Ko'jin's family so this is the closest I'll get to showing how he feels. Feel free to harass me about it though.

[your-local-grinning-cat]

How bad is AR broken today?

BITCH DON’T YOU FUCKING FORGET CHE’NYA IS SELF AWARE AND THE 4TH WALL BUILDERS HAVE GIVEN UP AT THIS POINT. HE KNOWS HE IS ME. I KNOW I AM CHE’NYA.

CHE’NYA IS AR IS THE ROLEPLAYER IS THE LEONA SIMP.

IF CHE’NYA IS DATING YOU SO AM I.

COME AT ME LION MAN I WILL lovingly PUNCH YOUR MOUTH WITH MY MOUTH 👄🥊👄

HOW DARE YOU LOOK THAT GOOD IN THE NEW SPELLDRIVE CARD?!??!

HOW DARE YOU FINALLY GIVE US A NEW HAIRSTYLE LIKE WE’VE ALL BEEN SCREAMING FOR??!!?

HOW DARE YOU LOOK THAT CONFIDENT AND SMUG???!!!!!??

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY

HOW DARE YOUR CLUBWEAR CARD ONLY BE AVAILABLE ON JP SERVERS RN???!!?!!??!??!!???!!???!!!

😭😭😭

(Leona Clubwear Card under the cut as it is only available in the jp servers so it is a spoiler)