#MY FRIENDS ARE SO TALENTED

[princip1914]

I am completely ecstatic to share this gorgeous hand bound copy of my Good Omens human AU The False and the Fair made by @nieded.

Even though Ni sent this to me about a month ago, I still can’t quite believe that it exists, that someone would go to all this effort to make something so beautiful with my words. Wanted to do a little photo shoot to share this with y’all, since something so lovely shouldn’t just be kept to myself. Thank you Ni!

(Adding for the record: I love seeing my work transformed by the fandom, but I do always like to be asked in advance before art/bound copies/podfic etc is made of my work. If you're interested in doing something like this please do reach out!!)

[tarabyte3]

Top 5 favourite fanfic tropes?

For my follow up I will allow you a light cheat:

✨️ Top 5 fics (any fandom/pairing)

and (if you would like)

✨️ Top 5 Andy blorbo fics

You know, those ones that live rent free in your mind and you find yourself coming back to even years later (also your choices don't have to specifically follow your trope picks!).

😘

Before I start, I want you to know I only saw the first bit in the preview and was like, "Oh that's fun!" And then got sneak attacked by the rest when I opened it 😂😭 Anon, I respect tf out of you for this, but also I'm going to have an existential crisis lmaoooo

✨Top 5 fanfiction tropes

- Mutual pining/"un"requited love

Especially if it's paired with angst 🤌 want them longing. Yearning, even. Throw in something like forbidden love to kick it up a notch, and, baby, you've got yourself a stew.

- Sex pollen

Particularly if they aren't in a relationship yet to add extra pining and angst. This is a sacrifice (I shouldn't want this). I would do this for you (please let me). I can't stand to watch you suffer (this will break me, but for you it's worth it). That and the smut of it all 😌

- Hanahaki

Being so in love with someone it's literally killing you. It's love made manifest so violently you choke on it. The pain and suffering would end if only you could let the words out, but the thought of rejection—of having to live with that instead—is worse than death. Plus, there's something a little beautiful and poetic about combining pain and suffering with love and flowers. Doom and bloom. Life and death. The Japanese were so real for this.

- Fake dating

I love it when they're both fuckin dying the entire time because they've caught a glimpse of the thing they want more than anything and it isn't real. It's bliss. It's torture. They don't want it to end, but it will destroy them to keep having it just out of reach.

- Getting together

A simple classic, but there's just something about two people falling in love and coming together in spite of everything. And if it's a slow burn? With constant missed opportunities and misunderstandings?! Staple crop of tropes.

✨ Top 5 Fics

I'm going to go with Qui-Gon x Obi-Wan (shocking, I know) because that is the bulk of what I have been reading non-stop so it's at the forefront of my brain. It was difficult to narrow down my 100+ bookmarks because there are SO many incredible works and writers in that fandom that inspire me, and some of them make me want to eat dirt. (I mean that as an exceptional compliment.)

- Shorelines by outpastthemoat

This is what Qui-Gon has done each morning for the past three days, returning to Obi-Wan with handfuls of treasures he has found: Bits of broken glass, polished by the waves, or intricately spiraled shells, a broken piece of chain; perhaps a stone as wide and flat as his hand. But he always returns to the shoreline the following day, and begins his search anew.

This is one of my favorite QuiObi writers (I would highly recommend ANY of her other works at the drop of a hat as well), and I have reread this fic at least once a week for months. Like, I have it open in a tab and think about it constantly. It's an introspective piece—an exploration of a connection and the peeling back of layers to try to understand what waits underneath. There's a beautiful sort of simple yearning, melancholy, and poetry to her writing that makes my brain go brrrrrr. So much is said in all of the things left unsaid. It's two parts of a series and they're both incredible.

- Malalignment by Tohje

The first time is a pure coincidence, all parties could swear it on their deathbeds. The pelta frigate GRS-20 - informally Generosity - is a huge, maze-like, rusting piece of a stronghold with multiple medical wards and cantinas. It is a sheer stroke of luck that 212th and the River Company are accommodated in the adjacent, overstuffed compartments and share the same cantina for their short recuperation periods. There is no thing such as luck, or coincidence, only war (and the Force, according to the Jedi).

Another writer that I adore who has multiple bangers. This one is an AU where QuiGon lives and is part of the Clone War, but in the most Qui-Gon way possible. Combined with Obi-Wan's lingering hurt from the situation with Anakin, the war, and a several year estrangement and by god it's delicious angst. Plus, I love self-sacrificing depictions of General Kenobi. (The smut is also very good)

- That Cold Affliction by Orphan Account

Obi-Wan tries to surprise his Master on a mission with few comforts by making Qui-Gon's favorite tea. Or trying to, at least. As it turns out, tea is a . . . complicated affair. (A little bit like love.)

Short and bittersweet. Forbidden love. Beautiful angst. I'm so sad I don't know the original author because I've seen several of their works pop up that are also orphaned (they have a very specific summary style) and they're all so good and full of similar themes, but I have no way of seeing if I've missed one or not 😭

- Taking Root by sanerontheinside

Obi-Wan thought he was terribly obvious, really. Qui-Gon thought it was Obi-Wan’s secret to share or keep, as he wished.

*banging pots and pans together* QUIOBI HANAHAKI!! This author does a deep dive into the affliction and combines it beautifully with Star Wars world building, plot, and characterization. It's everything I could want from the trope AND the pairing. They're also another one of my favorite writers. And if you're looking for an abundance of excellent smut, you'll absolutely find it in their body of work.

- How to Grow Vegetables and Alienate People by Meggory

Why had Obi-Wan agreed to this? He had exactly no experience growing anything—hell, he'd killed a cactus once, and he'd heard someone say that was impossible—but now he was taking over Bant's community garden share so she didn't feel she had wasted $150 on the plot? He had $150. He should have just given it to her and told her to get blitzed on the plane.

Cute modern AU with a funny af meet cute, excellent characterization, humor, and a simple, lovely plot of two idiots falling in love. Oh, plus gardening. 😌 AND Qui-Gon has a dog. It's the soul comfort food of fics. This author does an incredible job with AUs (pssst you like time loops?) that are great stories so it was very difficult to pick just one!

✨I both adore and dislike this last part. Because on one hand, it gives me the chance to brag about and hype up my friends, who are not only kind, wonderful people, but also very talented writers that deserve it and more. So I truly appreciate you so much for that. On the other hand, there are more than 5 of them that have written Andy Blorbo fics, and some of them have multiple stories and blorbos. And we've all gushed over or discussed many of them at length with each other, so they hold a particular fondness in my heart. Choosing only 5 from that feels like an impossible task.

So I WON'T be narrowing down my top 5 (I'm so sorry, anon, I'm not god's strongest soldier), but I will be taking the opportunity to drop their Masterlists/AO3 accounts 💖😌😇

afogocado | Alfred Pennyworth

amywritesthings | Kino Loy

citrus-moonlight | Ulysses Klaue

eupheme | Alfred Pennyworth, Ulysses Klaue

squidlywiddly87 | Kino Loy, Ulysses Klaue, Liam Black

stargirlfics | Alfred Pennyworth (+ lots of Alfred and Klaue headcanons and blurbs!)

tarrenterror | Alfred Pennyworth, Ulysses Klaue (+ Alfred, David Robey, and Kino headcanons, blurbs, and edits)

viceofdionysus : Alfred Pennyworth, Ulysses Klaue

[foolych]

Here’s some whiteboard doodles of Levi I did with my friends @sinisterjasperweevil and another friend who begged me not to @ them lol

Also Teto is there. And Beel.

[k1ance-a-lot]

Voltrons 🌟 Diner

Now open in a galaxy near you! ✨️💫🛼

( Designed by the talented @callmelyc )

[thatmultifandomchick]

I was watching Drawfee the other day and really loved the Drawing Our Problematic Faves episode, so I asked two of my lovely and talented friends @im-a-tired and @kitlanna to do a Problematic Faves art collab with me! Check out their blogs to see when they post their art!

If you know me it will come as no surprise that I chose to draw Wallace Bryton from Tusk, because he’s the worst (both affectionate and derogatory.)

More specifically, I based it on this Tumblr post I made awhile back. I was aiming for a M*tt R*fe vibe, because he’s the only problematic comedian I can name off the top of my head.

[icegrillz]

Channel 154

11” x 13” / 01 micron ink pen on Bristol board.

by Drew Tietz (2019)

[swiftiefirefighters]

omg your halloween icon and colours they look so good

my icon is by @agenttommykinard!!!! she has a whole collection of 911 halloween icons and they're so good!!! i couldn't resist a change, even tho now i keep not recognizing myself.

[legitalicat]

Dynamics as Aesthetics - Aemyra, Aemond, Helaena, Aegon (with Aemyra and Aemond's daughter)

This lovely board was created for me by @zaldritzosrose because of the dynamics in Raven's Wings, Dragon's Fire

I cannot express how beautifully this represents the way I see them.

(And yes I know their characterizations in RWDF is not like their show or book counterparts, that's the point.)

[feeldirt]

In meditation with death to die is to be reborn beyond flesh

Sermons are already so spiritual, but with music intertwined... How can your wrath not be heard? I was standing in the kitchen when I played your song, warming up my leftover soup. I stole some headphones from my boss. I wanted to hear every single sound you created. From start to finish, my blood was evaporating at the same time my feet were buried deep in the Georgia red clay where my loved ones lay, dead. In deep meditation with death. I began to cry.

 

If I wasn’t stuck in this kitchen in this house

I would’ve started wailing, a war cry.

A scream of loss would’ve filled this house.

There’s something at the bottom of my belly where all the evil goes. I never let her out. The last time music made me this way was when I saw Dis Fig live, and before that, when I saw her with you.

 

On this full moon, I am reminded death is all around; she follows me; she has taken, but I refuse to die while my heart is still beating.

I live for ME.

I live for those who are gone.

When my time comes when my flesh is rotten

I’ll be reborn for the last time.

[miss-celestia13]

Positive Fairy 🧚‍♀️✨💫

If it hadn’t been for Duskwood, I wouldn’t have found those souls that light a fire in me and make life brighter when everything feels dark.

Love you all and I will always support you❤️

Not my quote, just one I love!

[clumsydragon28]

My constant state of being thinking about the fics I’m gonna be reading in the future:

[princeraglan]

This is my little shrine of Twitch goodies that I've gotten from other streamers!! Lemme know if you recognize anything! 🥰 @goodappleboy @mmoozzee @alluringallegro

[kristylime]

Yo...

Just dropping in with the latest chapter of the Chronicles...

It's almost done... I think two or three more chapters at most depending on how I break it up. But it's all written...

If you want to catch up:

Some gorgeous art by @weakformemo and @indashadows ... thank you again!!!🥺

And the playlist:

Again... some extra special tracks featuring @indashadows (thank you again so much) 🥰

Several WIPs at the moment... including a follow-up to the Chronicles, but it's so weird to be so close to the end of the initial series.

Thanks to anyone who read/is reading.

And thanks for your consideration. 🧛🦇🧛

[k1ance-a-lot]

"...our futures lie within each other."

Inspired by @callmelyc

[mimi123meg]

EVERYBODY SHUT UP

MY VERY BEST FRIEND KAY ( @cardboard-sorceress ) MADE A LITTLE ZINE ABOUT ALL THE WEIRD TYPES OF LOVE YOU ENCOUNTER AS A QUEER PERSON AND ITS THE CUTEST THING EVER AND EVERYONE SHOULD GO CHECK HER OUT BC SHES SO COOL AND FUN AND TALENTED AND FUNNY

ILL LET HER DECIDE WHERHER SHE WANTS TO POST HER POEMS BUT OMFG I APMOST CRIED READING THEM

Edit:

Kay posted the poems!!! Here is the link to her post: https://www.tumblr.com/cardboard-sorceress/724658366929158144/i-made-a-zine

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

i might take a bit of a break today, i’m not feeling the best mentally :( i keep thinking i’m not good enough and whatnot

if you have any Childe or Foul Legacy brainrot to share please feel free to!! it’d really make me smile- anything from fluff to angst to comfort is all good

to end this on a positive note tho, look at the Foul Legacy print my friend drew me for Christmas!!!!! (the second pic is the digital version since the lighting in my house suuuuucks) they’re @ Valkxxs on instagram if you wanna go give em a follow :D