#LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS WEEK YALL

[astros-arts-inthestars]

KELBREY WEEK BEGINS!!!!

Day 1: GAMES!

Theyre playing late night games in Kel's house, and it's obvious who's winning 🧡

KELBREY WEEK HOW IVE MISSED YOU!!! I'm gonna try so hard to get these out because these are very important to me the week is ran by my PALS MY BESTIES!!! Speaking of which...

@kelbreyweek2024 !!!

[marblerose-rue]

basking in moonlight

[nathsolkyoako]

Haha yay I love being scared I’m coming off as a weird older person with my friends now (:

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

i love your blog so much. i love your art. im eating it

Finally, I have discovered why my art has bite marks on it. I can't stop what's already been done so...Guess I'm flattered?

[the-sun-and-the-sea]

Odesta Week Day 6: Supernatural Saturday

Annie Cresta has one goal. 

It’s not to be selected as the volunteer for the 70th Hunger Games—she’s already done that. And despite what she tells Caesar Flickerman, it’s not even to win the Games, although losing would certainly hinder things. 

She spent ten years training at the Academy because she wants to be something. Make a name for herself. 

And when your mother is a goddess, it’s not easy to step out from under her shadow. 

It’s not like anyone knows that Annie’s mother is Aphrodite. Officially, the gods don’t exist, and the Capitol is the most powerful entity that the world has ever seen. But Annie knows, and she’s spent most of her life trying to prove to herself that she’s powerful in her own right. 

On the night before she goes into the arena, she feels anything but powerful. 

Mags, who is mentoring Annie, says that even volunteers feel nervous on the night before. It’s normal, apparently, because this is everything she’s been working towards. And if it goes wrong, she’ll never work towards anything again. But it won’t go wrong. She won’t let it. 

Her room is dark and too stifling even in its vastness, so she heads out to the balcony for some fresh air. Even the air in the Capitol feels different than the air back home. The city smog sits heavy in her lungs, or maybe she’s just imagining the tightness in her chest. 

“Can’t sleep?”

Annie startles, but the voice sounds oddly familiar. She turns around and meets eyes that are as bright as a kaleidoscope, gleaming in the city lights. The woman is foreign and familiar all at once. Her shining hair tumbles down her back, and Annie’s eyes don’t even know where to focus. They flicker from her eyes to her hair to her serene smile. 

“Aphrodite,” she says, because it feels weird to address her as ‘Mom’ when this is the first and probably only conversation they’ll have. 

Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty, and her unearthly looks are testament to that. She was born of sea foam, which is what ties her to District Four, although as a goddess she’s not bound by the Capitol’s rules. 

Her smile doesn’t waver. “Evanna.”

“You can call me Annie,” she says. “I didn’t think you were ever going to visit.”

“Tomorrow is an important day for you,” says Aphrodite. “I may not be mortal, but I know that much.”

“I don’t want your help,” says Annie before she can stop herself. “Sorry. But I have to do this on my own.”

Her mother gives an unbothered shrug. “I am not here to offer help. Only encouragement. Did you know that in some ancient cultures, I was worshiped as a warrior goddess?”

The night wind whistles through her hair. “You were?”

She nods. “This experience will test you unlike any other, but you know that already. What you may not know is that the power you’ve been searching for has been inside you all along. You are a warrior, my daughter. Not because you are mine but because of your own merit. You have always been fated to transcend these mortal games.”

Annie’s heart is in her throat. It’s getting hard to breathe, and she can’t tell if it’s fear or excitement that she’s feeling. “Are you saying I’m going to win?”

“Only you can determine that,” says Aphrodite. “Before you go, I have something for you. A gift.”

She opens her hands, and Annie looks at the small glittery object. It’s a necklace. A small white pearl hangs from a thin gold chain. Annie accepts the gift, cupping the necklace reverently in her hands. “Thank you.”

“There is no difficulty you cannot face,” she says, then disappears. 

Annie walks back into her room in a daze. Her eyelids go heavy with sudden exhaustion, so she gently sets the necklace on her bedside table and climbs into bed. 

[raineandsky]

hey yall! thought id give you a lil update on this blog

now i dont wanna lay my entire life story on yall, but ive had a lot goin on recently. nothing major, so dont worry! but im gonna need a bit of time to rectify things irl to get everything back on track here

this isnt to say im leaving! ill be lurking and ill reblog my favourite snippets over at @rainey-day-reads as always, but i think the well of creativity is a lil dry atm. im sure some of you have seen my endless tags saying how im burnt out, but i think ive finally hit the Ultimate Burnout lmao

i just need a lil time to recuperate without the worry of making sure you guys have a story. its not fair on yall to read rushed trash cause i wanted to get something out on schedule, and its not fair on my mental health to stress about that kinda stuff. i dont help myself cause i made a schedule that literally no one was holding me to but my brain likes to keep things on time so here we are lmao

this post is gettin long so ill keep it brief from here - i WILL be back when im in better shape!! keep your comments & requests coming, i will see them and ill get back to them as soon as i can!

i might change my 3-day schedule when i get back to just post whenever i write something too - so you guys still get top quality writing and my brain gets to chill tf out for once lmao

i LOVE yall sm <3

- Raine :)

[priincebutt]

Good morning lovelies! I am officially on vacation and so I am posting early in the day because I still have another flight to catch and then I'm going to be with my nephews on the beach and it's going to be glorious! Thank you to @onthewaytosomewhere for the early tag! I'm going to give you something from soulmates au again, because it's all I've really been working on. Just a lil snip because I don't want to give the whole thing away!

It’s one thing to admire Henry, to know he’s beauty personified, to understand that this man is the other half he never knew he was missing. It’s a whole other thing to feel physically complete now, to feel like he might die if Henry stops kissing him.

Going to go ahead and tag @duchessdepolignaca03 , @zwiazdziarka , @sparklepocalypse , @anincompletelist , @firenati0n , @heysweetheart-writes , @firstsprinces , @piratefalls , @magicandarchery , @hgejfmw-hgejhsf , @sunnysideprincess , @forever-fixating , @wordsofhoneydew , @itsmaybitheway , @taste-thewaste , @theprinceandagcd , @nocoastposts , @indestructibleheart

[slutdge]

havent eaten in almost 3 days now besides a couple of crackers because the torment nexus has made it impossible to do anything besides get in bed and drink myself to sleep after i get home from work this week

[ofbreathandflame-archive]

im free from the shackles of school...for now lmaoo. seriously though, this last week really made me question why i decided to get my graduate degree but we prevail!!!! im glad the semester is OVER!!

[shmaptainwrites]

the urge to post another fic is so real but like…if i post it now then what am i gonna post next week

[opeial]

sometimes i truly feel like this is the end

[arataka-reigen]

I said I wouldn't review the winter anime season because I had too much college stuff going on but I accidentally watched a bunch of anime instead of focusing on college these past two days so now I might actually make a review post lol

[akkivee]

*BURNS MY HOUSE DOWN*

TAKEUCHI-SAN!!!!!!!!!! KURODA-SAN!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥳🧡💜🥳💜🧡🥳

[heartsofhounds]

Hy you're cool 🖤 make very pretty art, so send lots love 🖤🖤🖤

AaaaAaa, thank u my love!! I’m so so so happy you like my stuff! Cant wait to have a lil more time open up so I can really go crazy go stupid with the art 💙

[mulbery-street]

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[elegyofthemoon]

>_> okay now im realizing i might have to start thinking about making some jibashiri... but augh effort.