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Oh no! Etho’s building has a rat infestation! along with a bunch of other issues, like rusty pipes and the health inspectors had enough. It’s going to get demolished soon, and everyone is getting evicted in 3 days. Not to mention his totally platonic work buddy needs a roomie for …reasons. WhATEveR ShALl hE DO
This might be my worst guess ever, but yah. I’m going to do one tomorrow as well. Have fun writing!
Oh no! How ever could this be? lol
I love that idea! Super fun! And as per usual, I shall neither confirm nor deny ;)
No worries abt 'bad' guesses/theories, I love them all! (even the super unrealistic ones (not that this one's unrealistic))
Thank you sm for the ask! And if you do one tmr, I shall see you again soon! :)
#ooooooo#theories#fun times#:)#Grem's Super AU#update on the update coming soon#I just gotta write the post out lol
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*clasps your shoulders gently and looks you straight in the eye*
Keferon. Please read Ninth by Kyn on AO3. I think you would love it very much. It has a large chapter count, but don't be intimidated, it's very easy to get into. It is currently unfinished, but is being updated regularly.
You are the seventh person that recommended this fic to me so ahahahaha yeah
I’m doing great Help I hate some parts of it but I love the other parts I’m spinning in the blender
…..I made the moodboard….
#chapter 37#of 120 or something#I must be like 90k words in haha#large word count is not an intimidation. It’s an invitation haha#I love the fics that I can’t read in just one hour:)#I gotta say I don’t enjoy the concept of making robots into organic life#it’s just my preference#seeing them as humans or animals or whatever feels so fucking wrong#the concept itself drives me off#like. Strongly#But at the same time. This fic isn’t about them being ‘haha cute organics’#it’s ‘oh god. I was turned into something I’m not’#instead of teeheee they’re fluffy#it’s please free me from this fucking nightmare. please let me be myself again.#idk how to explain. I resonate I guess#it often feels very disturbing but the characters are also disturbed#So now I’m kind of stuck reading this fic because I just can’t stop lol#just politely skipping the parts that make me too uncomfortable#also#the body horror is….damn. Impressive. I didn’t expect to read about grotesque fleshy creature turning itself inside out#it’s not even aesthetic or symbolic#it literally looks like a fucking nightmare. Which is impressive also.#the flesh is g r o s s#the beginning got me struggling and skipping#but the intermission is currently ruining my sleep schedule#oh fuck….I usually send my posts to the authors of the fics I read…..but I feel like I might offend the author of Ninth if do this……..#there’s a tiny chance they’re following me….if it’s true then I wanna tell I’m sorry pls don’t take this seriously#your fic got me waay out of my comfort zone#huge points for writing Ratchet. Drift in this fic is…the grossest fucking thing I could probably imagine but Ratchet doesn’t even hesitate#he helps him and he cares for him. Which is…..imma be real my first instinct would be to set Drift on fire to end his misery
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Plans got canceled, time to go home and don my Nightcrawler cosplay and sit and write Nightcrawler fanfic
Y’know normal Friday night behavior ✨
#The blue was edited in there was no way I was actually about to try and do the face paint just for an impulse post LOL#actually wasn’t even going to post about it I just haven’t worn the cosplay in months and I wanted an excuse to pull it out#x men#x-men#xmen cosplay#cosplay#nightcrawler#kurt wagner#nightcrawler cosplay#writing fanfic#writing fanfiction#gotta channel Kurt for this weapon by name chapter watch out yall#praying my roommates don’t come home soon LOL
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BEACH OUTFIT 💥💥💥💥
He used to surf the web back in 98'.
#the clothes were so difficult for no reason i kept having to edit them#i actually really like this one lol#cunty uncle type thing going on#Also i love the HC that he as a plush tummy thats so cute and im stealing it#i was about to give him flipflops until i realized he cant do that#He had a dolphin print shirt but it looked ugly with the shorts and i really wanted the striped shorts lol#deltarune spamton#spamton#spamton g spamton#spamton fanart#deltarune#deltarune chapter 2#i think it looks fine but still i hope it comes across he's resting his right arm on an invisible prop for the pose lol#there was a small little fella in the back of my mind who wanted to put him in a two piece but i couldnt sorry lmfao#edit: I forgot to write this out but I wanted to put it on any post bc i dont want to post a txt post just for this#but honestly he's gotta be some flavor of queer.#It doesnt matter to me which type all that much but I HC that even though he probably is#he has never been in a relationship and i dont think he ever will#he is so full of himself and he's kind of an ass tbh. That and i doubt he trusts anyone with what he's gone through#even if he got time to heal i dont think he'd ever trust someone enough to make a real relationship that way#Thats it thanks for coming to my ted talk#if you opened the tags here's your secret paragraph & im not sorry#BuwheArt
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What I Need
911! It’s an emergency! Here’s what I need STAT: to get all dressed up with a handsome man who has a deep craving to tickle me, wine and dine somewhere with my feet secretly in his lap under the table, talking about everything and nothing… then to be whisked off to a cute cabin with a cozy fire, be pampered and spoiled, massaged and cuddled… Afterwards, once I’m feeling all relaxed and cared for, then I’ll be his own personal little tickle toy all night.
That’s when he whips out the silk cuffs and traps me in all night on a comfy bed so I can just laugh and laugh, scream, beg and moan, and laugh even more, all because of his fingers/feathers/tongue/lips/whatever tools he surprises me with. I need someone who can play me like a piano and find out what music i make 🎶 someone who GETS it. Someone who knows exactly what it’s doing to me, and it does the same thing to you as a tickler. Someone who has an innate desire to find all the ticklish spots on my body…then exploit every. single. one. Someone who wants to sweetly, gently, ever so cruelly tickle me until I’m a babbling mess who can’t even form thoughts anymore. Someone who can expertly make me feel like I’m on tickle cloud 9 ☁️
When I’m tied up and tickled and gently teased, everything else in the world just allll melts away (while I’m melting into a puddle ahem). I love when a guy has that dominant energy, with a soft teasing side that just makes me absolutely turn to mush. Cooing in my ear with a honey-dripping voice, the occasional threatening reminder of how I’m absolutely trapped there with nowhere to go. That slight sadistic streak that perfectly compliments my fluffy masochist side. I love the gift of exchanging cheeky smiles and sharing joyous, contagious, uncontrollable laughter 🥰
#I… don’t know what came over me to spill this out from my soul#but here we are! hehe#i’m just a girl#and I’m probably going to deny ever saying this :)#if you read this no you didn’t#hello my unofficial official first real post back??#when inspiration hits you gotta run with it LOL#okay all jokes aside I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it#and daydreaming#thank you for getting this far of my ridiculousness hehe#tickle thoughts#tickle community
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I was thinking about the dynamics between Danwu and Edwu happening at the same time.
Using the 100% canon compliant Danwu timeline as reference lol. None of this is actual canon. I am just thinking about the timeline of events.
The Edwu situationship goes crazy the more I think of it.
Like Eddie being Wu’s partner in crime against nature is like. Yea going off of the Danwu timeline, Daniel and Wu have known each other for a good while.
But like… does Daniel know about Wu almost dying to the Scorpios? Does Daniel even know about the whole secret hybrid thing going on? He obviously doesn’t know a good bunch since his company recruited Sammy and whoever to get insider information.
I mean it would make sense that Wu would still keep things hidden from Daniel when it comes to his work. Especially his hybrids since he’s so attached to them. He’s still competition, owning Mantahcorp and all.
But you know who was there… you know who does know. Because he’s right there. Because he’s trusted.
A situationship born out of convenience and seeking comfort after nearly dying…
#i'm just rambling#chaos shipping#edwu#danwu#I am kind of questioning if the people eddie mentions working for is actually just him hinting towards Hopkins’ deal with Wu.#Which makes sense why he does the whole “they don’t know what is actually happening here” thing#I feel like I need to walk in circles in an empty theater and just talk about this out loud.#Brooklynn grabbing Ben by the shoulders and explaining the possibility of Eddie and Wu being a thing and writing fanfic of it.#<- context? Uhhh chat discussion about Brooklynn writing chaos shipping fanfics.#No one reads my Edwu posts lol but I gotta type this out or I’ll go crazy.#jurassic world chaos theory#jurassic world camp cretaceous
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I just want to write fanfic. But. I’m in one of those phases!!!! Where I can’t. Because Of Cringe
#like sure I could theoretically write whatever and choose not to post I. guess#and one of them I probably won’t post but#it’s that feeling of like#I cannot reread the docs without feeling afraid and immediately backing out!!!!#which behfjcnggtt sux bc i have more wips at the same time now than i usually ever do#like a week or two ago I kept having more spontaneous ideas#i was jotting down and getting started#but like I’ve said if I don’t chase ideas IMMEDIATELY#I lose steam :’( I get scared or lose track of where I was going#I gotta go FULL STEAM AHEAD as long as I can#it’s very like. 0 to 100 to 0 to 100 to 0 to 100 forever lol#bro I want to be free!!!#its okay I just have to indulge in other people’s works until I reset again. 🫡#‘what if strangers on the internet disapprove of my antics’ WHO is even looking. we r in da shadows mwah
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I never post about it here but since the one year anniversary of its conception was on July 5th i figured I'd post some drawings that i haven't shared here of my persona 4 older nanako AU
The last two drawings are unfinished but i figured I'd post them anyway cuz i like them :3
The story is in a very vague state right now but if you have questions about any of this please ask......i would love to talk about this with people.
The fact that it's been a year since i started working on it is crazy to me and I've improved a lot in various ways. I wish i posted about it here more but because the story is in such an early stage (and also cuz my art isnt that great) i feel afraid to put it on my blog :,) hopefully I'll post about it more now though cuz i really wanna start on developing a much more comprehensive plot to this which posting about it might be the extra push i need.
#peep the sixth image i did that shit in mspaint#also peep the older yu and yosuke designs!!! i finally did them a while ago and i really like them :)#im giving Yu a cane cuz I'm allowed to it's my AU and i get to give this mfer a mobility aid if i wanna#nanako's idol outfit took ten billion years to design but the final design made it worth it#another reason why the story isnt super comprehensive yet tho is cuz i wanna finish p4 arena (+ultimax)#cuz i wanna know how they bring back the midnight channel in that so i can figure out how to bring it back in this AU#also cuz there's just a lot of details and things i need to write before really starting to write it all out#i gotta rly get on it tho loll#persona 4#p4#nanako dojima#gremlin nanako au#art#i want this to reach more people but idk what tags to put......:')#persona 4 au#gremlin art#whatever lol idk how to do tags#yu narukami#yosuke hanamura#just realized theyre in this post so i can tag them lolll
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#[ GOOD MORNING EVERYONE !! hope you're having a lovelyyyy day! ]#[ woah i'm in such a good mood ]#[ everyone is so nice to me all the time ]#[ i'm forever super supported and feeling all the love t-t blessed ]#[ also yesterday i went to volleyball practice (i play twice a week) and it was the most fun aaaa ]#[ i never thought i'd ever enjoy playing a sport.. ]#[ i was always the kid who hated gymclass and got picked last for teams LOL ]#[ now i'm living my haikyuu life....... wtf ]#[ also been very inspired for my ocs recently and worked on them on my instagram uvu// ]#[ i'm very inspired for art atm but !!!!111 the weather is nice for 2 more hours before it starts raining xD SO I GOTTA ENJOY IT AND WRITE#[ - i always bring my laptop outdoors to write uvu - ]#[ anyways this got long i'm just !!! excited !! ]#[ hope you're all enjoying your day! ]#toby post. ╱ out of character.#[ ALSO MAN OH MAN I HAVE A TON OF INTERESTING THREADS GOING I'M HYPED ]
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anyway i need more monarch a trois fics. sigh. wish i could write, i gotta draw them more at least
#the thing is i dont even know what abour if i were to request or write myself#but im thinking about a post movie setting with the monarch healing and perhaps with also some comfort about the new situation#also Spoilers but id assume the arching would be more complicated with the ventures in colorado#so its just a waiting time. time to be domestic? or speed it up by killinger helping monarch heal up and the ventures getting back to NY#orrr the monarch gets a new cocoon finally or a jet. anything he can fly in to get to the ventures#i wonder how they would continue this. theres still a lot to be told story wise. but in this case#lotsa time for feelings and getting together properly#im also thinking about how seemingly gary doesnt think about sheila That much now and it seemed to be pretty awkward between them so#id love to see them get closer. him and monarch are very close but its time for sheila#aaand id also love to explore monarchs feelings. theres gotta be a Lot of them right now - but specifically the changes about him and how#he views others and how he respects and cares about both sheila and gary and perhaps explore what could be internalized homophobia#his past remarks vs now i know its the show as a whole maturing but its also nice to just view it as his personal character growth and#feelings realization on his side...#the thing is hes a villain and they wanted to push this whole 'he says shitty things cause hes a dick. hes a villain.' thing but#they fleshed him out so much that i cant not look at him as a not that bad guy and feel for him and pity him and such#siiiigh i wanna know more. i wanna know how hed treat more henchmen now. i wanna know about his childhood after the plane crash#i wanna know if he does or doesnt feel bad about kidnapping gary. assuming monarch just went straight to henching at a young age#perhaps its so normal to him - and its so normal to gary imo. thats why they dont see anything wrong in training kids as henchmen lol#also while im at it. the monarch being the reason 24 died and the biography 21 helped write and monarchs cat that he killed#are they over that. are the last 2 things light retcons? i wannt them discussing that#maybe theres fics about it but if its not shippy i havent found it yet#me when the rarepair/trio is rare 😥😩#and i havent seen 2024 fics. where are they hiding#everything is like 2018 latest so pre movie or during or pre s7
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Hello I stumbled across your profile and I just say I love your art style! I've gotta ask, how'd your develop it? And do you have any advice for someone who can't decide what they want their art to look like?
Thank you so much!
To be entirely honest, I don't feel like I truly "developed" my style. I feel a lot more like I finally let myself draw it! But I am incredibly deliberate with my work, and I do have clear tendencies and preferences... So I'll do my best to explain how I got to where I am now as an artist.
It's important to remember that "style" is something of a nebulous concept. It changes with you as you grow as a person, and most artists can work in and emulate many art styles! Art really is a form of communication with yourself, and your "style" is a reflection of the tendencies and preferences you have. My art does not look how it looked 5 years ago, and my art will look different 5 years from now too. I've changed, and my art reflects that!
(2012, 2018, 2023; two pieces I remember being incredibly proud of and considered my best work up til that point, and then my most recent piece)
What you need to do, as everyone will tell you, is study the fundamentals (anatomy, perspective, form and structure, lighting and shadow, color, and composition) so you have the proper tools to make the most informed decisions possible about your art, and so you can deliberately break or follow rules as you please for your desired effect. I know it sounds silly to learn rules if you're not gonna be following them anyways, but they help you be much more consistent and intentional! More knowledge is NEVER a bad thing to have!
However, I know it's a bit demoralizing to just be told to study fundamentals. Everyone knows you're supposed to do that, but it takes YEARS to learn, and people want their art to feel how they want it to now (which is very very very normal to want!)
So on that front, I have 2 follow up suggestions that I personally find helpful (of course, everyone is different, so it's not like this is the only way to learn! But, if it resonates with you, it might mean it will work for you too.)
1: Separate study from application
I believe this is beneficial for a few reasons:
If the goal of every piece is learning, it can become frustrating, overwhelming, and boring
It's harder to self critique when there are multiple variables to investigate. I like to study one fundamental at a time
Study (usually) works best with a large quantity of output, whereas application of knowledge (finished pieces) is often more satisfying and effective when you get to take your time
Deliberate practical application of what you've learned in a finished piece helps cement the learning in your mind, and also lets you get satisfying finished pieces with noticeable improvement after a good study session!
I've found that keeping these things separate helps me improve faster and more deliberately, and it takes a lot of the pressure off of both aspects! I'm not worried about my studies looking beautiful, they're just to learn! And I don't feel pressured to critique my finished pieces, cause they're just for fun and to make something pretty. I personally find this helps me have a much healthier relationship with my art.
When studying, copy! Copy things as best as you can, all the time. It gives you something to compare to for self critique (and of course, if you're copying someone else's work and you share the study, ALWAYS give credit, share the original, and say it was for study.) In application, don't copy: reference. Make it yours!
2: Let yourself do the things that feel "easy" or like "cheating"
This one is simpler: nothing in art is easy.
If something feels easy to you, most of the time it's not because it's actually any easier... It's because it's part of your natural tendencies and preferences! This took me forever to realize, but as long as you're actually doing some study, then you're learning. You don't need to learn All The Time. When you're doing the "application" portion, you should let yourself do whatever is actually the most fun and feels easiest! This is where your style will start to come through, and where you get to learn about yourself. Take the pressure off, and have fun!!!
The only cheating in art is theft. If you're not stealing, then it's allowed!
My whole life (and yes, still!) I'd get regular criticism about both my style and my subject matter. You will too. You'll see a thousand different styles, and a hundred different things to admire in each. Your heart will ache that you don't draw like others do.
But art is a form of communication with yourself. It's like your voice, or your accent; just something that's a part of you! It can be fun to mimic others', but when you sit to have a conversation you speak naturally. (I know some people want to and do change their voice, but this is a metaphor and metaphors aren't perfect)
Don't stress so much about what you want your art to look like, especially if you're not sure. There's a lot of value to be had in constant experimentation, I think it'd be rather boring to only draw one style the rest of my life. What I draw is what I want to see, right now, for who I am now! It's a part of me and comes naturally, if I let it!
I hope this helps!
#justbrowsing1124#asks#art tips#drawing advice#drawing tips#art advice#long post here sorry#long post#I could have gone on so so so so so so much more but this took me like 2 hours to write#and I've gotta go to bed! haha#so if you feel like something wasn't properly explained you can send a follow up ask and I'd be happy to elaborate#I love answering questions like this#sorry if it sounds a bit condescending I wrote the post for like... what would have helped me to hear when I was just starting out#so I wrote it basically for how I think would help I guess a kid#sorry about that. the content is still all what I think though#also I realize that i didn't really talk about like... my journey... at all here lol.#I guess if you wanna know my personal journey I'd love to get into it!#but i focused a lot more on the second part#cause yknow#that's kinda what my journey was internally anyways#but yknow no fun progress of my art with notes about what I was doing and why#but fuck that sounds fun if someone did wanna know about that LOL#I am VERY deliberate with my art I could legit analyze every piece#pretentious? maybe. do I care? not at all.#why make it if I dont have a reason?
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it's been over 2 weeks and this thing (unfortunately) still has a grip on me
#rant in the tags coming so please do scroll away if you enjoyed the finale 🙏#you know how with some things you'll be like 'I had some negativity towards this thing but--#now that it's been some time I feel better towards it'?#my thoughts on the finale have only gotten worse since it released 🥲#being given more time to think on it made me notice more things I had wrong with it#like I really wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt but it is so difficult#when I tried ranking the episodes from best to least favorite#I'd come to realize that I couldn't put either finale episode above the other for the bottom two#they both gave me the same feeling of being doused in ooze 😭#I've written a good handful more thoughts on why I disliked it since the last rundown I had posted#though I'm afraid if talking about this is considered cringe or old news now that it's been a minute since the eps came out lol#I've watched the finale in full two times just to take everything in but I don't think I can do it again anytime soon#I think there's about 8-10 mins of the finale that I genuinely enjoyed#the rest making me want to cry in disappointment or was just 'okay' to me#just gotta 'it is what it is' my way through knowing the show ended like That. we stay silly!#however- writing about it does give me a little bit of relief lol#adventure time#at#fionna and cake#petrigrof#simon petrikov#betty grof#my post#my art
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Aight we love a lesbian squid yes
but does she fist fight other lesbians to be the best lesbian??
Looks like she’s got her hands full at the moment…
Otherwise she might get into fights, but probably just for fun. Simple zest for life, you know.
#splatoon#not art#whew sorry I’m super late getting to this#been pretty wiped lately and spending my free time playing video games#(mostly another crab’s treasure- it’s really fun!)#I gotta get around to actually making/posting some art on here before this turns into an ask blog lol#(I don’t mind the asks though! just feel like I should be posting regularly too)#I’m too lazy(?) to answer asks with art but I think I’m also out of sketchbook pages#and it takes me a very long time to write so unless an ask super inspires me…#I mean unless someone asks for a WIP I got lots of those#I could share snippets or smth
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i don't want to reblog the fic Again but im just spinning shb corishtola in my brain SO fast these past few weeks
#shtola reaching out to cori at the last minute bc she cant let them go into battle without saying SOMETHING#and showing how much she cares. even if its not Those words. not letting cori keep themself apart from her. im gonna cry again alksdfhklds#also i need to design a lightwarden cori but idk that's not my forte really i just think they would have a gun#like statice. lol#i need a text post tag#also think i may have a real opening scene planned for island fic now its been spinning in my brain also bc it's connected#im like the pepe silvia meme rn#but i dont have time to write tonight i gotta catch up on wip wednesdays and also read a bit of priory#bc i WILL finish it before march
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countdown to tsc: apr 7., 2024, 23:58 pdt
2. digging your fingers into fresh dirt // renee walker, after lazarus
When Renee gets to the garden, her fingers are still stained with blood.
It had taken Abby’s most soothing tone and Wymack doing a passable imitation of Aaron’s impatient candour—the same language as Wymack’s, but less heart-filled bluster, more blunt force trauma—to get Renee to leave the room. She’s still not sure she should have, but Abby’s voice had been gentle when she’d said, this isn’t like Matt. Giving him something to believe in will come later.
Renee doesn’t know if she’s ever seen Abby so angry and horrified. It’s worse than how she looked at Kevin’s injuries, that very first night. It’s worse than how she looked at Neil, both times, after the Nest and after his father. It’s almost as devastated, Renee thinks, as the way she looked when she held Allison tight to her chest that first night after Seth.
Wymack is better at holding his expressions in check, but Renee knows him. There had been a tremor in his knuckles when he opened the passenger car door. He’d gotten it under control fairly quickly, to his credit, but Renee had noticed.
Renee had thought, I am not the only one who must draw on all my reserves to keep steady.
She breathes out, then in, as if the smell of growth in the world around her can flush through her body. When she was a second year, Seth had taken a biology class with Dwayne. It had nothing to do with either of their majors—she remembers Juan making some sort of joke about growing pot, and Seth elbowing him with a sidelong glance at Allison, who had rolled her eyes and told them both that she thought they’d be lucky to keep a fake plant alive in the shithole they called a dorm—but Seth had liked it better than anyone had expected, occasionally offering up things he found interesting from the units on horticulture.
There had been a joke about photosynthesis once, something that had been mostly earnest information, but he hadn’t been able to resist throwing in some teasing at the end, always trying to make Allison laugh. Renee feels a sudden wave of indescribable, quiet grief when she realises she can’t remember how his joke had gone.
There are four plants to her left, still in the plastic pottles you buy them in at the store. Renee remembers Abby talking about a sale a few weeks ago, and wonders if these are those same plants. It’s been a demanding few weeks, she thinks. Life is often unkind to those that cannot move of their own accord.
She’s not really thinking about it when she walks over and picks them up. She puts them together, two by two, and squeezes her fingers around two pottles per hand. There are probably gloves somewhere; a trowel too, maybe.
Renee does not care.
Kneeling down at the edge of the garden, there’s a patch with looser soil than the rest. It is poor behaviour, she thinks, to start messing around with Abby’s things without asking permission first, but Renee does not have the space in her yet to hold back. Abby will forgive her, which is not an acceptable reason to do something, but Renee is so angry. She spent her whole night transforming terrified grief into determination and a plan, and then the six-hours-and-then-some drive from Castle Evermore back home with nothing in her mind but Jean. The impossibiity of him.
The impossibility of him still being alive. The impossibility of her getting there in time, and even that’s still to be determined. The impossibility of how much she aches, looking at him and thinking about him and praying for him. Four hundred miles on the I-77, and all she could do was pray.
It was a very human thing, Renee thinks, to walk into Evermore to get him out. Stephanie had been proud of her, and Abby had called her brave, and Andrew had looked at her with that innate knowledge of someone who understood what it meant to take someone under their wing, and absolutely none of their thoughts and love and understanding change the fact that Renee walked into Castle Evermore with more fear than faith.
She digs. One hand into the soil, then the next. There is blood on her fingers still, beneath the nails. Part of Renee has the uncharitable thought that she hopes it’s Zane’s, stray flecks from when she punched him. More of her accepts that it’s Jean’s. She does not know when it is from: when she first knelt at his side on Riko’s bedroom floor, when he was carefully settled into her car, when she and Wymack lifted him into Abby’s house, when she sat beside him and held his hand as those broken, wounded sounds ripped their way from his throat and drove right into her heart, piercing it through, over and over, just as the way the ugliest part of her, buried beneath therapy and anger management and the most wilful calm she has ever had to cloak her body in, wishes it could do to Riko.
Jean’s blood beneath her fingernails, spattered across her hands, buried into the soil. She’s planting a flower she does not know the name of, and all she hopes for is that Jean will bloom.
Please, she prays, tugging the roots apart with a care and precision she did not feel capable of two hours ago, listening to Jean’s screams. Please, she prays, pressing the plant into the soil, cupping her hands together to scoop the dirt, helping it settle into its new home. Please, she prays, patting down the soil, warm earth meeting her palms like a balm.
Please, she prays. Stephanie says you are not done with him yet. She was right about me. Thank you for getting us this far. Please. Please. Please.
“Renee?”
It’s Abby’s voice, exhausted and haunted and utterly wrecked. She still manages a wan smile when Renee looks up at her. Abby doesn’t seem to notice that Renee has been co-opting her garden, or maybe she’s too raw to care.
“You can come back in now,” she says, like she knows it’s both a gift and punishment at once.
Renee nods, then stands, brushing the dirt off her trousers. She looks at Abby as she approaches, trying to choose her words. To ask how he is would only invite more sadness; to ask if he’ll live betrays how deep her fear has run.
“I’m sorry,” she says in the end, quiet but sincere. “That must have been… very difficult.”
The look Abby gives her is brief, but pained. “He breaks my heart as much as any of you,” she says, quickly, fervently, “but that is never a thing to apologise for.” Abby looks so sad. It makes Renee ache, but this is not the type of thing she can wipe away. “Thank you for bringing him here,” Abby says, and Renee feels rocked with it.
“Thank you for letting me,” she says in return, and neither of those are entirely what they mean, but it is enough. Renee will always walk into Castle Evermore to save Jean, and Wymack and Abby will always open the door when she arrives in South Carolina. There is no version of this story, Renee thinks, where they follow any other script.
This is what it is to be Foxes, after all.
“He’s still not quite himself,” Abby says. There is a part of Renee that finds this sentence amusing; Abby has never met Jean, not truly, only from Kevin’s stories. More of her is somber. She knows what Abby means. “But I think he’ll feel — perhaps only marginally, but I think he’ll feel more at ease having you beside him. I’ve done what I can, for now, and there will be more medication and treatment and dressing of his wounds, much more before the night is through, let alone before he is recovered, but —” She exhales, long and low. “He is alone, and in pain. We can’t do much more about the second one. But he can have you back.”
Renee nods, setting her jaw as Abby steps back to allow her through.
“Then he shall have me until I am no longer needed,” Renee says, and thinks, and perhaps some time longer after that.
Abby gives her a careful look. “That could be a very long while,” she says, but she does not offer any sort of objection.
“That’s okay,” Renee says. “I don’t mind waiting.”
#renee walker#jean moreau#aftg#jeanee#post lazarus#abby winfield#countdown to tsc#tsc countdown 2#ok i had a very hectic stressful day lmao but at like 11pm pdt i finally started reading lazarus#so i whipped this out quickly for today on the countdown LOL i knew i wanted to write renee today so i was like#lazarus time u gotta. u gotta#jean & renee#blood mentions and severe injury reference cw#seth references!#abby & renee#countdown to the sunshine court#i realised just now that technically jean isn’t even in this but he’s so much the subject of her focus that it’s like. weeps
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brainstorming ideas for my next theoretical oneshot and I think I’m gonna expand on what was mentioned in th recent bunny ask and make it puka centric
#For context. The one I’m finishing up now is from pukas perspective but focuses on prim. I’d like to do the opposite#bc I’ve always wanted to do something with the insecurities puka has about their own abilities.#[and it’d give me the opportunity to project a little but that’s not important]#Ive always tended to write more somber stuff bc it gives me more room for introspection. As opposed to drawing it. I like drawing cute stuf#Anyway. Posting so I get held accountable. The other one is basically done I just gotta figure out Ao3 lol.
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