#I'm still recovering from this chapter

[whysoblue2]

The Truce

I'm still in my angst train, so I thought I sketched the hug between Narinder and Leshy in Chapter 17: Cats at the Drink House, from my fic The Last Bishop, The First to Fall! Some of you will notice it's very similar to this hug between Heket and Kall.

The family is the same, and so is the love. Let's hope the truce lasts!

Close up under the cut so you can see Narinder crying better!

[buttercupshands]

can you even call it a warm up if I'm going to bed without drawing anything big

and a sketch I made while sitting in the park today

[allastoredeer]

How is you undercover AU going??????🤨🤨🧐

I've actually been asked several times about how the Undercover Angel AU is going and when it'll be updated and the answer is:

I'm still working on the next pages, and I know what direction I want to take it, but after losing the original sketches I have taken physic damage. It's really hard to start things over from scratch 🥲

I'm not going to abandon the AU or anything, I'm just building my motivation back up. The next few pages are mostly sketched out, so it's just a matter of getting back to them.

[nenehyuuchiha]

So I was watching reels and got into DC side of Instagram and...

Hal Jordan fucking dated a 13 year old girl

/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿💥💀

This girl had a celebrity crush so strong that her ring aged her.

And despise he literally calling her "little sister" the moment she physically aged he was onto her and they were making out.

And everyone including the writers knew that this was fucked up cause Hal Jordan literally said "I need to convince them I'm not a child molestor" and he literally was 💀.

Why is DC so fucking fucked up about young girls?

Stephanie Brown was literally a teenager mom and when she was killed and tortured by black mask it was like he was also going to rape her.

Helena Bertinelli was a kid when she was raped.

And a big etc.

What the fuck is wrong with DC writers?!

[missmungoe]

The ineffable and ever-mysterious Cover Anon, who's gifted me not one but five fic covers for Shanties, has done it again, with the most stunning cover for my recently completed Mnemosyne, this time by the brilliant Checheven.

I am beyond words. What an incredible gift after finishing this fic.

[wowifinallywatched]

Saw: The Final Chapter

Me: A room and the lighting of it won't make me emotional

The Room: *The OG saw bathroom*

Me: SOBBING IN THE CORNER BESIDE MY BABY BOY ADAMS BODY

[moongothic]

do you have favourite Crocodile face?

the one he makes at the end of chapter 540, vol. 55 is seared straight into my soul. he almost went }:3 and I cannot deal with it like a normal human being. I love his facial expressions, those sad eyebrows are *chef's kiss* 💚🐊

Ah yes, this one, right?

It's a hilarious expression and definitely an underrated one kjshdfjgkghf Like we've seen him smiling plenty of times before this, with that classic evil grin we all know and love, so something about this panel is so funny to me, like if it wasn't for the hollow look in his eyes he'd look almost mischievous here and I love that. He's up to no good and he knows it dsjkfhgshdfghkdjf

IDK if I have a favorite expression from Crocodile, typically my favorites are just the really meme'able, funny expressions and this man does not have any of those to offer (which is fine really), and really every panel he appears in during Impel Down + Marineford are fantastic, Oda kept us so well-fed

I think I'll give a shout-out to this panel though, because while I think this man was already irreversibly changing my brain chemistry (while I was falling down the Crocodad Rabbithole and re-reading Marineford obsessively), I think this is the panel that finally kind of broke me

Like I think it was this panel (from chapter 577) that finally made me go "wait, am I losing it or is Crocodile kinda handsome" lmfao

[trashquisitor-shirozora]

What will you do when ao3 is switched off from January 2025?

... did I miss something? Was there news about AO3's future in the midst of a whole year's worth of news getting crammed into the first three weeks of an extremely hectic month at the end of a nightmarish year?

If I'm going to be honest, the future of AO3 is a bit low on my list of priorities when there is so much shit already going on that will affect the rest of my life and the lives of everyone around me. But if it ever comes to it, I've been on Dreamwidth for years and don't mind posting my fics there again. There will always be a way to share stories and AO3 going down isn't going to stop that.

[theokusgallery]

Since you have a lot of opinions about Sunflower fics, do you have any recommendations :p? I do generally agree with you about the derth of good works on them - kind of hoping for something I've maybe slept on.

Okay, I'll try,

First of all — I want everyone, and I mean everyone to read Coda for a Crestfallen Caitiff by MercuriallyApathetic, who also wrote The Strange Summer of Sunny Whatshisface (still one of my favorite longfics to this day but a lot more lighthearted). Coda is a masterpiece, it makes me insane, it is criminally underrated, I want to inhale its essence, and when I first read it it gave me a panic attack and a mental breakdown that lasted three straight days (/pos). Definitely read the tags and prepare yourself mentally but JESUS CHRIST I need everyone to read it. Please. You will regret it for a few hours but it is... an experience. To me at least. And to the two people I recommended it to who gave me feedback.

Then there's sunflower seeds in the rearview mirror by @andrewwtca which remains probably my favorite multichapter OMORI fic of all time (you might spot my essay-comments in the later chapters, I love this fic so much. I didn't end up writing one for the last chapter but man did it hit me hard). Very intriguing with a captivating style and an unreliable narrator mechanic that I am absolutely in love with. Everything by that author is excellent.

We have, of course, literally everything by BetweenDisorders. Arsenic is partly inspired by one of their fics ! (you know the one.) Their characterization of both Sunny and Basil (but especially Basil, because I'm gay) makes me froth at the mouth. Their style is very recognizable and honestly one of the best I've ever seen. But more generally, they have really original and intriguing ideas (like communication, in which Basil and Sunny are two computers... Did I mention how I'm a sucker for original/unique plots and premises enough yet) and everything they do is something you've never seen before. It's amazing.

Note to Self: Don't Be Gay in Faraway Town by witheredahlia is also very, very good. It's a lot lighter, but it still made my gay little heart ache, because I'm a sucker for misunderstandings done correctly (fight me).

Detective Sunny by Det_Sun is genuinely one of the most creative, fascinating OMORI fics I've seen, and also way too underrated. It's an excellent read, and there's a bunch of ideas in it that you know go deeper than what is shown, and it makes my brain go at the speed of lights. Many many thoughts about this one. (Side note: I fucking love it when there's unexplored ideas in fics. Makes my brain go brrr. Not everything has to be shown and when I see hints of "behind the scene" thoughts and character background that isn't discussed much but still implied, my brain becomes a feral animal. I don't know if that makes sense...)

[quinloki]

I am officially unwell about Marco and it's about to be all y'all's problem.

[scenteddean]

omg these new 91w chapters are coming out faster than I'm able to process them

[elytrafemme]

and even now i want to say cough syrup isn’t over! it’s not done! you would have to pry this fanfiction from my dead body i’m telling nobody the ending, you aren’t getting this half finished, because if there’s one thing i know about myself it’s the fact that i would rather die than leave this unfinished. but at this point, who am i fighting against? who cares? it’s just a fanfiction, it doesn’t matter. i tell people it’s over, they say it’s over and forgive me. i tell people it’s coming back, they say that it’s coming back and forgive me. i can’t make decisions and i can’t let this fic go but i just want to exorcize it out of my body but that’s never going to happen because i don’t trust anyone with it, i don’t trust anyone with a half finished story, you need to know the ending but i don’t want the ending anymore, and i wish i was angrier but i’m already so angry at everyone who can pour their hearts into something and not know that by the end of it they’re going to crack into pieces.

[enbyboiwonder]

Why do people pick up a fantasy book and then complain that it’s fantasy? It’s right there on the tin!

[httpshujii]

girl i am sobbing because of the second chapter i need like good fifteen minutes before i publish it

UR NOT HELPING

[babisawyer]

I'm fucking sick again.

[sovamurka]

Oh, new exlibrium chapter drops today