#Soon march 2023

[sweet-pinkitty]

Oops, I Said Yes?!

Soon in March 2023

New Season 3 is Kunihiro Kasai Part 1 / Part 2 / His PoV

[mossy-paws]

I am obligated to ask anyone with phighting requests open to draw voidstar :3

Psycho ass dog….

[nr1carambaceo]

Sigma sigma on the wall who's the skibidiest of them all😋

Okay I have to admit I really gotta stop posting something and then vanish chat😞😞🙏🙏

Anyways have some human caramba doodles and one with his exo skeleton because I just came up with a new design for bro but my art hasn't been arting recently so mb if the art looks like it got high

Again for like the 4th time or so I'm sorry for disappearing a lot my interest for Zak storm kept coming and going away because I just got back interested into ninjago but dw gang my interest for Zak storm will never leave🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏

Also mb for the design of carambas clothes it still not rlly decided how I want it so mb🙏🙏

[jamscandraw]

🔪HAPPY (IDES OF) MARCH🔪 Part 3/12 of my 2023 Calendar Project and honestly my favourite Tumblr holiday. Let's all go ✨stab Caesar✨

Get process breakdown/bonus content by supporting me on Kofi ☕💖

[marciaillust]

so like uh. uhh. superhero/journalist au revamped

[deus-ex-mona]

anyways, in honour of 1 year of honeypre (rip) eos, what were your top stats like at the end of the game? i’ll go first~~~

[flutteringfable]

ive decided im not gonna return to genshin until venti is back on a banner and/or in a quest. i figure it'll be a fun (/sar) measure of how long they can go on ignoring him <3

[cephalopaints]

redesigned some old idol ocs from like a year ago (bonus stuff under cut)

[damiannasworld]

I'm feeling completely drained out both physically and mentally. Going to write more about my experience later.

I just wanted to say if you ever have a chance to see JO live, do it. They're absolutely amazing live. ❤️‍🔥

[mirkwood-trash]

Just saw Navan for the first time since I rehoused her like 3 months ago 🥺 she gettin so beeeeeg

[cultofpoppy-tm]

Poppy confirms new single, Church Outfit

Poppy has revealed that next single Church Outfit will be dropping at the end of March, and teases that her new chapter incorporates elements of her “dance background”.

March 7, 2023 KERRANG!

Words: Emily Carter

Photo: Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello

[honeysoul]

roadside flowers on a cloudy day

[anthrofreshtodeath]

tattoo parlor or celebrity! also bones crossover 👀 I just started season 6 on my rewatch- oh my slow burn

I want to do the Bones crossover so badly but have self-doubt about doing it justice. It'll come eventually.

Also this is a You Only Live Twice snippet disguised as a celebrity AU so whoops. At least Jane and Frankie are celebrities in that universe😂

Frankie Rizzoli, Jr. stood next to the green lined cages with a bat in his hands, even though he hadn’t taken any swings since high school. He had been a notoriously bad hitter - do you have to stink it up so bad?, his sister would complain - so bad that even as he watched now, he got that familiar slither of nerve sweats down his back. 

That could have been the Arizona heat, however. It was persnickety in the spring, wavering between chilly in the midmorning and oppressive in the afternoon. Afternoon approached now, the sound of maple against leather- pop pop pop - its clarion call. 

Bats on balls always ushered in the start of spring. 

Frankie routinely spent his times in between warmups and bullpen sessions watching Mariners hitters so that he could reacquaint himself with the sight of a batter. None stood in the box across from him until the second week of Spring Training, but he needed longer than that to pump competition into his veins. Their objective? See ball, hit ball. His? Throw ball, miss bat. Thus, the reconnaissance behind enemy lines.

The cages had hit that cacophonous sort of rhythm, if it could be explained that way - the interplay between the whir of pitching machines, batted balls, and hits striking the aluminum fencing - sputtered to background noise when about ten Mariners dropped their work for a commotion at the front entrance. 

Frankie couldn’t make out what they gathered around, and he squinted when he walked over there because the opening to the cage area faced the sun. At first, he saw white. Then, the mesas of the Arizona desert came into view until they bled into close-by hills and the light towers of Peoria Sports Complex. His eyes adjusted to the sun and when they did, his sister appeared, surrounded by a gaggle of grown men.

Jane Rizzoli wore the Angels’ Spring Training uniform, the red button up jersey with the A emblazoned over her left breast, tucked into white pants with a red pinstripe. She had Frankie’s most recent New Balance turf shoe on, too, but none of that enticed the Mariners saying hello.

No, Aria, the two-and-a-half year-old with the brown-blonde hair up in a bun atop her head enticed them. She wore a small jersey with her own surname on it, Rizzoli with the number 10, and except for the color, it matched Frankie’s teal one. She looked like she had just woken up from a nap by the way Jane carried her on a hip and the way her glossy stare went through them rather than to them. 

Frankie pushed his way past his teammates. At 33 and a decade on the team, he’d earned a right to do so. Especially as the ace, a fact about her uncle he’d never let Aria forget. “Hey, hey! Look who’s here!” He greeted her, all smiles and waving arms with his big chest puffed out. She turned to him right away, but her face remained unchanged. Frankie chuckled to himself. “Asleep on the car ride over here, huh?” he asked Jane when he reached for Aria.

Jane adjusted the hat over her low ponytail as soon as Frankie took over. “The whole forty minutes from Tempe,” she replied, and Frankie thought she might have rolled her eyes behind her Oakley glasses. She shrugged her duffel bag closer to her shoulder. “She’s gonna want down in a minute. She’s just gotta wake up.”

“She’s too young to remember when you guys visited us last spring, but she’ll get the hang of it,” Frankie said.

Julio Rodriguez himself caught up to Frankie, and clapped him on the back just so he could get some facetime with Aria. “She gonna be a power hitter with how much she come here,” said Julio, ruffling her hair with his sprawling hand. 

The group of them walked the few feet back into the tunnel toward the batting cages and Jane bumped shoulders with Julio when she put her sunglasses on the brim of her hat. “That’s the plan. Watchin’ you’ll only help,” she said. “Thanks for havin’ her.”

“You kidding me? Anytime,” Julio responded. Like clockwork, Aria grumbled as she listened to the adults around her talk until her uncle put her down. “Now,” Julio began again, “get her in there.”

“You hear that, kid? Get in the cage, let’s go. You’re late for barrel work,” Jane deadpanned, summoning Aria to the fence like she would any of her Angels hitters.

Julio pulled a tiny tee out from behind the pitching machine, one that stayed around for all the Mariners kids should they drop by. Aria helped Jane unzip the bag she put down on the carpeted floor, and pulled out a foam bat just her size.

Jane stuck the ball on the tee and then stepped back, winking at Julio. “A’right, show ‘em what you do,” she encouraged. Aria, with a gaze of concentration stood on the left side of the tee and whacked the cloth ball a few feet away.

“Ma, run!” she ordered when she threw the bat. She pointed forward where a base might of been had they been on a field.

“You run!” Jane ordered back with a deep belly laugh. “You’re the one who hit it!”

“You see her flippin’ that bat?!” Frankie bellowed, arms crossed against the backstop. “She’s a celebrity already.”

“Don’t let her hear that,” Jane said when Aria wobbled on less-than-certain feet toward the pitching machine and toward the great Julio Rodriguez himself. “Don’t let Maura hear that, either. I’m gonna have to send her to LineDrive when she turns five.”

Frankie held his bat out and tapped his sister’s chest with it. “Ah, stop and smell the roses, would ya? You’re the parent of a prodigy. Spring’s here. Baseball’s back.”

“You’re right, you’re right,” said Jane. She took hold of Frankie’s barrel until she held the handle in her own grip. “Baseball’s back.”

[blueandyellowdiamond]

[loverboyromanroy]

i'm fairly confident that the succession season four airdate and extended trailer will drop ahead of the last of us premiere on jan 15

[isfjmel-phleg]

January 2023 Books

The Sylvia Game by Vivien Alcock (reread)

Still enjoyed it.

The Mysterious Mr. Ross and The Stonewalkers by Vivien Alcock

Very different books but both good in their ways, although I preferred the former, despite its (intentionally) vague ending.

Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander

It was cute (time traveling shenanigans with a cat!), but I doubt I will feel compelled to read it again.

Moongarden by Michelle A. Barry

The Secret Garden but a sci-fi school story, which sounds like a fantastic premise. The worldbuilding was its strongest, most interesting point; it's set in a future where the earth is considered uninhabitable and plants are viewed as dangerous, so the garden analogue is not only secret but highly forbidden. The robin is a little robot. There's a subplot about cloning and how such people fit into this world's society. STEM careers are magical-ish gifts that some (not all) people are born with and that manifest physically as marks on the body.

...the characterization, though? Not as intriguing and not really parallel to that of the original story. The themes of emotional neglect are absent. Myra (the Mary analogue) has absent and imperfect but still genuinely concerned parents, and she reads more like the standard angry YA protagonist than a parallel in personality to detached and contrary Mary Lennox. The Colin analogue is an obnoxious popular student with a difficult relationship with his father...and there's not much else to him. Themes of disability/illness, either physical or mental, are absent. There didn't seem to be a Dickon analogue? Some of his role went, I think, to the Ben Weatherstaff analogue, who plays a significant role. While I can't fault the book for taking a different direction with the characters, the result wasn't especially effective for me. I didn't find most of the cast very interesting to read about since their personalities and conflicts seemed more standard YA fare than anything else. Character development is much of the point of The Secret Garden, and it was disappointing to find this element underdone in a retelling that really has more in common with its original through basic plot points than themes. It's possible to maintain the heart of the story one is retelling while developing it in new directions, but I don't think this book accomplished that, although its world and concepts are indeed innovative.

This is the beginning of a trilogy, and I'm curious enough about the world to probably continue with the next book whenever it comes out.

A Clock of Stars: The Greatest Kingdom by Francesca Gibbons

The conclusion of this series. While I did enjoy revisiting these characters and the world, I felt this one was the weakest installment. The pacing at the beginning dragged, and the characterization didn't always work. (What was the point of Kazimira--no relation to our dear Cazda, of course--and why wasn't she allowed to undergo character development?) I am very very tired of the currently popular trope of royalty abandoning their responsibilities to concentrate on their own fulfillment--and that turns up here, even though briefly it looked as if Miro was getting some new perspective on ruling. SPOILERS: he renounces his titles to further develop his new shapeshifting powers, but nothing is ever said about the fate of his kingdom. Is it left to the mercy of the slimy regent Miro was so eager to escape? Why is he so unconcerned about at least making sure his people are taken care of? Why can't he be both a monarch and a shapeshifting mage?

Between Shifts by W. R. Gingell

I feel like it's still too early in this series for me to have a solid opinion of anything?

The Star That Always Stays by Anna Rose Johnson

I enjoyed this one, both the nostalgic style and the unique angle of the heroine's background. Unlike some reviewers on Goodreads, I didn't have a problem with the presence of religious elements, but I think they could have been incorporated into the story more smoothly from the beginning. It comes almost out of nowhere (Norvia's faith isn't a prominent concern for her until suddenly it is? and supporting characters develop a devoutness that ostensibly has been there along but hasn't been particularly noticeable before) after the main conflict among the merging families has been resolved. Weaving these themes into the narrative more explicitly from the beginning would have strengthened their impact. Nevertheless, the book is highly readable and the characters are compelling, and I will be rereading this one.

Urchin of the Riding Stars by M. I. McAllister

A gift from @brown-little-robin! I read this ages ago as a teenager and had no particular memory of it, so it was fun to revisit it (with your doodles calling attention to certain passages!). Thank you so much!

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (reread)

Reread after being given the book. Sometimes it is necessary to read something sad.

Moira's Pen by Megan Whalen Turner

I'm not as deep into this series as a lot of people here, so I can't give a detailed analytical review, but I liked the book overall and have questions about the tantalizing hints of characters' futures and descendants.

No significant comics reading in January, although I did a lot of rereading and digging around through individual issues for a post I was researching that's still in the works (by which I mean it's languishing ignored in my drafts right now).