#Oh yep That one is definitely a biter haha

[screwpinecaprice]

Look at all these kiddos!

Thank you for the ☕💕🥰!

I'm taking a bit longer with these remaining ko-fi requests, so thank you also for the patience!

Here's my version of Steven and Connie's future family, commissioned from @screwpinecaprice!

More information about the kiddos is below the cut. You can also read my fanfictions involving them here!

Grace (11 y/o) is the oldest, and thus most mature, kiddo. She heavily resembles Stevonnie, though it isn’t a perfect match by any means. She's closest with the Crystal Gems, liking how cool and adventurous they are. Because of their influence, she eventually pressures her mom into (reluctantly) teaching her how to sword fight.

Lisa (10 y/o) is the middle child. She's extremely mischievous and can be quite rude sometimes, though she still has a pretty strong moral compass, albeit one that doesn't exactly line up perfectly with her father's. Because of this, she often clashes with her parents, and she even becomes best friends with Jasper. Don't worry, though: she eventually realizes her different ideology doesn't make her parents love her any less.

Gregory (9 y/o) is Priya's twin, and also a musical prodigy who heavily takes after his father and grandpa. He's extremely sweet and just wants to make everyone happy, even if that can be very difficult sometimes. At times, he can get lost in the music™ and neglect his schoolwork, friends, sisters, and parents. This especially becomes an issue in his teen years once he hits it big as a rock star and starts traveling around the world.

Priya (9 y/o) is Gregory's twin, and she really likes building stuff out of random junk she finds around town and in the woods. She's amazed by technology, and she really wants to be the next great inventor. Naturally, this leads her to be good friends with Peridot, who teaches her about the inner workings of gem tech. Priya also meets a boy at school who's just as much of a nerd as her, and he teaches her a ton about human tech.

Priya's passion eventually disappears, however. As for why, you'll have to go to my AO3 to find out ;)

[garden-ghoul]

ITS TIME FOR two blogs part 6 or something

“there’s one SUPER loud frog in the moat outside my room tonight”

now let’s take a moment to gaze into

THE PALANTIR

Merry is tiiiiiired. He’s really just a young teen, holy shit. He’s also a little cranky at some perceived slight during the talk with Saruman that I didn’t make note of. Gandalf comforts him by telling him that Saruman is probably confused and furious about his continued existence. “haha, okay,” says Merry, “but um when are we stopping?” Then there’s some, uh, other stuff. And Gandalf says:

‘There was some link between Isengard and Mordor, which I have not yet fathomed. How they exchanged news I am not sure.’

Guys. Last chapter he picked up the palantir and was like “Pippin this is really dangerous don’t touch it.” He definitely KNOWS what a palantir is, if he’s worth his hat. ???? COME ON DUDE WORK IT OUT

Pippin wants a look at that palantir so muchhhhhh. He can’t sleep. He’s squirming. He bugs Merry about it, and Merry tells him to go to sleep. “I'm sorry, Pippin, but you really must wait till the morning. I'll be as curious as you like after breakfast, and I'll help in any way I can at wizard-wheedling.” Wizard-wheedling! What a sport! Anyway how weird is it that basically every powerful magic artifact is full of bewitchment. Is it just because most of the ones we know of are subject to Sauron’s will?... or is it because magic is inherently corrupting? Like, look at Gandalf. Basically his whole thing is to use magic as little as possible. He’s practically a witch! Saruman wizarded it up with magic and look where it got him! Nomads are morally superior! This is some Cain and Abel shit!

...so Pippin steals that palantir from a probably-sleeping Gandalf. We get no description of what he sees in it, just that he is spasming and yelling frightfully.

'It is not for you, Saruman!' he cried in a shrill and toneless voice shrinking away from Gandalf. 'I will send for it at once. Do you understand? Say just that!'

Bro. Is Sauron speaking out of his mouth right now. Is that what is happening. This is rather frightening! But Gandalf after finding out that Pippin didn’t do too much damage to their cause is very kind and gentle. Presumably Sauron will think the Ring is at Orthanc and not look for it closer to home. I really like Gandalf telling Pippin to just say something if he gets a magical compulsion. A witch can help! Also now that I’m thinking of Gandalf as a witch I’m imagining if Granny Weatherwax had his place in the story. It would be so good y’all, she would like try to take Sauron on head to head and nearly become like Saruman but she’d stop herself at the very last moment... It’s a good crossover come talk to me about it later.

At that moment A NAZGUL flies overhead, and Gandalf jumps to his feet and basically shouts “every man for himself!!” Geez man be cool. He picks Pippin up and rides... not hell for leather. Detroit for leather maybe, or one of those cities that everyone jokes about being halfway to hell. And he sings this song that has made me feel a Thing. I had to sing it. Ignore the crap audio quality, my computer’s mic is awful. 

Gandalf explains the palantiri. It means... Television. In Quenya I guess, Gandalf said Feanor might have made them. 

‘Easy it is now to guess how quickly the roving eye of Saruman was trapped and held; and how ever since he has been persuaded from afar, and daunted when persuasion would not serve. The biter bit, the hawk under the eagle's foot, the spider in a steel web!’

This entire chapter is SO aesthetic. Gandalf talks a little about what might happen to Saruman when the Nazgul finds him; and now “every stride of Shadowfax bears us nearer to the Land of Shadow.” Yep that’s his true purpose. To fax people to the land of shadows. Fast as electricity! Um but yeah Pippin’s off to Minas Tirith. I wonder why...

Well, Gandalf’ not talking, here just before BOOK FOUR begins. Now let’s hear about something completely unrelated!

THE TAMING OF SMEAGOL

Ohhh the entire second book of the Two Towers is gonna be Sam and Frodo maybe? I want it to be more spread out, I don’t know if I can take so much depression all in a row. And that depression: Sam and Frodo are not having a pleasant time in the Emyn Muil. Hell. Emyn Muil might be my favorite name in the legendarium. It’s SO fun to say. I’m also very fond of Minas Ithil and Ossiriand. No, focus. The hills suck, is the thing. It’s like hiking in Canyonlands National Park, except upsetting difficult instead of fun difficult, because our friends are being chased by orcs and a magical evil eye. They end up by this cliff and Sam, who doesn’t want to climb it, immediately hefts himself over the edge to stop Frodo from having to climb down first.

'No, no! Sam, you old ass! ' said Frodo. `You'll kill yourself for certain going over like that without even a look to see what to make for. Come back! ' He took Sam under the armpits and hauled him up again.

(crying gently) I love Frodo Baggins. A strong old man. A Nazgul comes and screams at Frodo while he’s climbing down, and for some reason this makes him go temporarily blind. He snaps at Sam again (but in kind of an endearing way?) and Sam gets out his rope. Also it’s raining now. Frodo really is a strong old man! He helps Sam climb down by partially just lowering him down the cliff. And then he climbs down himself with no help. Sam is sad to leave behind this Good Good Rope, but as it turns out elf rope is a faithful dog and comes when called. Sam strokes it lovingly. A good boy.

As our hobbits are trying to sleep, they spot Gollum crawling down a cliff (head-first, for extra creepiness factor). Gollum fails in his weird climbing method and falls down, and Sam immediately pounces on him. Oh Sam. Be not so full of hatred, it’s kinda scary. Sam gets a bit hurt for his boldness, and Frodo menaces Gollum with his sword. But he takes pity and makes Gollum promise to come along with them. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer! No, closer. Closer.

Close enough that when they think you’re finally asleep and they try to run off you can still spring on them and tie them up with fine elvish rope! Yes, that’s close enough. But the rope burns him. Frodo makes him swear to “obey the master of the Precious,” which is honestly an oath full of holes even if he actually does keep it.

Frodo calls him Smeagol, now.