#I'm just indulging myself lol

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID: a digital drawing of Hunter and Willow from the owl house based on the "lesbians doing makeup" meme. Hunter is lying beneath Willow, who straddles him while doing his makeup. He looks at her somewhat dazed and she looks at him fondly. the background is a mid-tone blue. End ID]

This is what they are. To me

[t3chborb]

I'm one year older today, so I figured I gotta wrap a present or two~

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..

...

... Wait...

... I got it backwards, didn't I...

... I'm supposed to be... uhh... the one opening gifts today...

... Oh, how incredibly silly of me...

Welp, I'm sure Ramattra doesn't mind~

[torchickentacos]

do you have any pokeani fic recs for the classic vibe (read: the content is unhinged and wild)

Referencing this post- long reply but I give a few pointers in these fics' direction at the end!

I'm gonna be so honest anon, I'm not sure I want to actively rec some of them 😭 A lot of them are very of-their-time (usually 2007-2013) and, while HILARIOUS, often contain things that I really don't want to 'recommend' (homophobia, sexism, a lot of slutshaming, some REALLY out of pocket stuff that is not properly warned for, etc). OBVIOUSLY I am not reccing the yikes of things so much as the rest of it (the hilarious unhinged side), but the current fandomscape leans bad-faith and assumey and I'm just not keen to fuck around and find out tbh. Ye olde fic reccing takes a level of understanding of other time periods and attitudes and customs in fandom and on FFN that I'm... not sure that all of tumblr is always very good at tbh lol. If you guys really want me to and if we can all understand that it was a different time and that enjoyment of batshit insane fics does not equal agreement with everything said or depicted in them, then come back and I'll consider it again. But for now, I'm MORE than happy to tell you guys the best ways to find them on your own lmao. It's not hard once you get it down, and anything I'd rec, I've found through this method.

First off, FFN's search system is just frustrating imo. Between a less-than-intuitive UI and people not bothering to tag characters and ships and genres properly, using it the same way you'd filter stuff on Ao3 is a fool's errand (unless you're doing it by word count/completed/etc, which is objective and automatically tallied I think). You're better off using key words. I usually ignore the filters. The only thing I filter by is fandom at the start page (all of Pokemon is under 'games' in FFN and I don't bother narrowing it down to animeverse personally due to aforementioned mistagging or an entire lack thereof).

So, what key words do I use? When looking for that specific brand of insane campy 2000s kitschy wild unhinged stuff, I usually default to searches like "PS CS IS" (poke contest ikari, there's a lotta stuff in there, sometimes there's ORS/LGS/OS/ES/AS etc and you won't always know the acronym and it's just a surprise tbh) or trope related searches like "Assassin" or "High school" or "Vampire" other words you might find in a summary. You can also search by character names (in the search bar and not in the actual filters, which are not reliable in my experience). I'd say to go for tropes and AUs as far as keywords go. I'd ALSO say to not filter by completed, because that'll filter out a lot of two-week-passion-projects that someone dropped as soon as it got flamed, and there's some fun ones in there.

That's about it, but if you find one good fic then it's worth checking the rest of what the writer has. A lot of them have a bunch of unfinished fics and there's some hidden gems. Have a good time reading, and the search is half the fun! Come back with any funny lines you find if you want :)

[sysig]

Greetings, human! ♥ (Patreon)

[thanatika]

the asexual viktor reveal is such a clownshow both on the part of the arcane creator pulling this shit in the first place AND the part of a lot of the fandom.

i've seen multiple people theorizing that this wasn't actually the original intent and that chr*stian l*nke is just pulling this out of his ass to avoid making a gay ship canon, but honestly, it tracks that this would be this dumbass's idea of "good" asexual representation. the disabled character when disabled people are already desexualized? the guy who turns into a robot/alien when "the only ace rep we ever get are inhuman characters" is one of the most common complaints i see in fandom? the guy who turns into an emotionless husk (and who intentionally tries to remove his own emotions in his og lore) when "the lgbt+ people i asked said that the most lacking rep was ace characters who aren't emotionless" was his motivating factor for making viktor ace? the guy who literally gets neutered (which, actually COULD work well enough as a "the hexcore turning him into his ideal form" kind of thing? like i have seen enough ace people, usually ace + nonbinary, who are interested/have gotten nullo surgery because that fits with their identity. but this writer is clearly so uninformed about the representation he's trying to create that i doubt he even knows that).

but there isn't any intrinsic characteristic in his canon portrayal that goes against him being ace (or even aroace, as l*nke seems to think is the same thing seeing as he said "we always saw viktor as asexual" as a way to shoot down the idea of romantic jayvik). it's offensive from a meta perspective of "ace characters always end up falling into these tropes" and "disabled characters are always desexualized", not because an asexual person couldn't have viktor's personality or couldn't have romantic/queerplatonic/whatever feelings for jayce.

so it's weird as hell to see the reaction a lot of people are having to it and their justification for why they don't think it makes sense, where it's like wow...

so you clearly have even more of a stereotyped view of asexual people than chr*stian l*nke does, huh.

[nervocat]

I'm wondering if writing more self-indulgent fics would help me a bit..

[brittlebutch]

officially 10K into this fic and having a realization about where I'm at on characterization so far, so i'm wondering:

[dandyshucks]

part of the reason (a big part. maybe the whole reason tbh idk LOL) why i think a lot about Gu.zma standing up for me and that sort of thing is bc it seems like in my real life (online and physical world) every time someone is cruel to me in a group setting, noooobody does anything. or if somebody says smth bad about ppl like me (whether that be irt queerness, indigeneity, neurodivergence, or smth as simple as personality traits) then everyone in the group just... seems to think its my responsibility to say smth. i feel like it always falls onto my shoulders for some reason to stand up for myself and/or ppl who are like me. and its so tiring and isolating 😭 (i think i have just had Really bad luck when it comes to ppl in my life sdfjkl my family is. obviously not good. and then friends have been few and far between, and the friends i have had have often not been very good)

so to have someone who would actually take on the responsibility to say something and have the difficult conversation w whoever is saying the unkind thing so that i can just... be safe and not have to struggle through that myself. is something that is very meaningful to me lol. it feels kind of unreal to think that anyone would do that for me, so i try to think abt Guz doing that for me to like,,, work thru any shame of Wanting that to happen in real life. bc if anyone does that irl, i want to be able to let them do it instead of (what i may very well do out of instinct) jumping in to tell them they dont have to do that for me bc "actually its okay, im fine and it isn't that big of a deal, it didnt rly bother me ahaha ^^;; you really dont have to do that for me, its probably best to just leave it alone bc i dont want any trouble, i dont want you getting into anything bc of me hahaha ^^;;;;"

[emmavakarian-theirin]

will trade drawing for burrito/tiramisu/cobb loaf ingredients 👀

[good-wine-and-cheese]

Thank you for the beginning of Chapter 10 of the Indomitable Human Soul I love Tenma and Ochan having tender moments. Thank you for the delicious old man yaoi.

Old man tender moments is my pleasure to provide<3

I was debating whether or not I liked the scene when it came time to publish, I liked it as a follow on from the previous chapter leading into a flashback but then the immediate next scene starts with a more somber tone and I was worried it's kind of mood whiplash, but having given it some time I think I like it in there.

I am glad it resonated ^_^

[buttercup-art]

hehe drawing some self-indulgent stuff

[sysig]

What your fave says about you: Sona/Undertale edition (Patreon)

[sadfruittheatre-rp]

The boy's eyelids grow heavier and heavier, so heavy that they seem to be dragging the rest of his head down with them, given the way it slowly bobs up and down in an increasingly futile effort to stay upright.

There's the thought that's pushing through the sleepy fog of his mind that he can't fall asleep out here in the open, that he needs to go home to an actual bed, but it's soon apparent that he can't even muster up the energy to blink anymore, let alone get himself home.

And so, that thought quietly disappears into the haze, along with the rest of his consciousness as his body decides he no longer has a choice in the matter, slumping across the public bench.

[reinedeslys-central]

so like sometimes it's only been a couple hours after you've eaten and you're wondering if you're wondering if you're hungry - but maybe you're just, like, hungry in your head, right? Not actually hungry? So you don't need to eat because that would be overeating, like at a buffet where you stop eating when your stomach feels like it's going to burst? wrong your stomach has an early warning system

no yeah fast forward to two hours later when you're kinda lowkey starving and you go, oh. huh. bodies don't lie.

listen to your organs y'all 😅

[b4kuch1n]

hey lads. I loathe the idea of doing a speedpaint just cause so I'm gonna put this one out there for a potential near-future thing. is there anything in my art you'd like elaborated on? concept to execution, anything inbetween, how I do ink, how I draw specific things, how I use references, anything’s game

[chlorinewriter]

Tagged by @erinyra for the fanfiction writer bingo! I haven't done anything like this in ages, but thanks for tagging me! It's fun to think about (and to read through your tags). Tagging @ditttiii and @giurochedadomani in case either of you'd like to participate ^^ Clean template can be found here.