#When I was in single digit ages

[msbarrows]

I mostly buy ebooks rather than dead tree books these days, so I don’t have a nice stack of Christmas reading to show off, but I can screenshot my Calibre library screen, so here’s that.

I went and spent probably more than I should have this morning on a combination of stuff to read over Christmas, plus working my way slightly further through replacing old paperback favourites with ebooks (and in one case, both at once). Not sure which of these I’m going to dive into first; I’ve heard good things about both the first and last things on that screen, plus I usually love Guy Gavriel Kay books (which are almost always ‘pack tissues’ reads).

[thesummerstorms]

Okay, but I do have an AU version of that AU in my head where Dick Grayson returns to earth and manages to find Annabeth (and Thalia and Luke) living in the streets before they make it all the way to Camp Halfblood.

We can explore the implications of that for Thalia and Luke in a different post, but basically Annabeth still has to go to CHB for large portions of the year, she attracts too many monsters, but when she isn't there, Dick Grayson has unofficial custody for quite awhile while Bruce gets his shit together.

The crack fic version of that AU of an AU has Annabeth trying to manipulate her way into arranging a meeting between Chiron and Roy Harper because her brother's friends have been kind to her and if one of them is going to be an archer, they should be the BEST archer so that they can keep Dick alive longer.

No one is more surprised than Chiron when he actually agreed to give Roy some "pointers", although he trained fully human heroes in the Ancient Days.

And to be fair to Roy his brain is stuck trying to work its way around fact that his friend's little sister staged an emergency to introduce him to a man who's half horse. He's kind of mad, which, fair. That said, once the actual archery lesson starts and he realizes that Chiron really is that much of an expert, he immediately gets into it.

Which is how a panicked Dick Grayson bursts into the scene a few hours later, expecting something terrible has happened to Anna & Roy because Roy isn't responding to comms.

Only to find his best friend arguing with a centaur about some obscure fact of aerodynamics while Annabeth is perched nearby watching, legs swinging, eating way too many popsicles and occasionally calling out questions when her curiosity gets the better of her.

Dick isn't sure whether to be pissed, relieved, or just plain confused, but he for sure isn't letting Anna OR Roy live that one down for years.

And if he also gets distracted and listens in to some of Chiron's archery explanations, well, it's always good to know your teammates' full potential.

[michdoodles]

Eighty plus year old science experiment finally loses his damn virginity

started as a silly sketch based on that one twitter meme earlier this year (that narrows it down a lot, I know /s), ended up coloring it too, although Hailey is missing her highlights here cuz they're made of hair dye and she went back to her natural all black look for the wedding and I wanted to see how she'd look without them

[dazzlerazz]

ARO EDELGARD!!!!

While I like her with Dorothea I’m also a HUGE FAN of aroace Edie!!! In her paired endings she only has kids with one person (Ferdie) and even her “romance” endings are more like “she and this person enjoyed each other’s company :)” so I’m absolutely here for aro (and aroace) Edie aaaaaaaaa

Arodelgard Acedie,,,,,,,,,, omg,,,,,,,,,, we're all so real for this I love us all so so so much

Do you think Edelgard would be worried about having children because she's worried that they might inherit her crests? That they might suffer in the way she suffered? I imagine it eats her up inside considering what happened to her and her siblings. She'll have a child or children out of obligation to her empire and her Fodlan but if she didn't have that obligation I think she'd just adopt so she can have kids without the worry of them suffering like she did :)

[viscerasmoothie]

Guys I did it

I wanted to edit it a bit more but I'm lazy and my fingers suck

fyi I traced the og for the Miku thingy because it's literally 5 am for me and I'm lazy and also I'm literally drawing shit on my phone give me a break :( /lh

Also no alt text sorry

[thebirdandhersong]

this is super random, but I remember how we first met bc of your post about finding songs to sing to your sister, and may I recommend “they were you” from the fantasticks? my mom was singing it last night and I was like “oh this is perfect”

Reporting back to say: this is such a gorgeous song and I LOVE the melody line (it is SO beautiful and simple!!!!) My sister is on a plane to another continent right now alas (not on her own... with my parents lol) but I am anticipating singing it to her when she gets back >:))) Thank you for the recommendation! I'd never heard of the musical or the song, and it's on the rotation playlist now!!

[echonidae]

i'm a bit late but!!! :''''') 2022 had a lot of art... ended up cheating and putting multiple pieces per month xD including some commissioned pieces i have yet to post :3cccccc but yeah, i feel like i learned a damn lot throughout the year, experimented quite a bit too, which is nice! sketched a lot as well, and digitally too, which used to be something i could only Dream of doing. got to work with and talk to really cool folks as well ♥ ahhh still got a long way to go, i'm nowhere near how i wish my art looked like, but i'm very happy and proud of these ones :D considering the previous two years had no summaries at all (mostly because there wasn't enough art so i decided to just not make any of those), this is quite the improvement i think! (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

but anyway!! thank you so much to everyone who stopped by, who left nice tags and replies and messages, and everyone who commissioned me as well!! you folks are all really sweet ;_; thank you!!!!

[lyriumsings]

sad bc i can’t really pin down which oc was my first oc bc ive literally been making them for as long as i can remember ive had them for every interest ive ever watched, played or read. but if i had to choose i think the title of My First Ever Oc would have to go to my percy jackson one tbh who honestly should probably be completely revamped SHSJ

[naamahdarling]

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[jitteryjive]

listen i love going against self deprecating but i dislike that any personal criticism is seen as violently hating yourself. like i’ll find art i drew when i was 10 and be like ‘Ooh maybe ill redraw this.. it’s cute and the anatomy needs some reworking’ and everyone around me will freak out like NOO!!!! YOUR ART LOOKS BEAUTIFUL NEVER SAY TERRIBLE AWFUL THINGS LIKE THAT!!!!!!! ITS PERFECT AND NEVER BAD!!!!!!! and i look at them with my eyes

[showfallmediacameracrew]

Do you know what happened to the others? (Besides Marvin, of course.)

some were brutally murdered before they could jump out a broken window. others might have escaped, but will never escape how screwed up Showfall left them. there is no happiness to be seen here, past the smoke and mirrors.

[gena-rowlands]

my friends still try to talk to me about ‘attractive’ men all the time which is like… babe we patched that issue in the 2020 update when i realised that not only am i not and have never been attracted to 99.9% of men and quite literally only assumed i was because it was an identity that was forced onto me before i even knew what the concept of identity and cognition was, but i’m also not a man myself!

[catboy-jupiter]

guess who got obsessed over nightwing overnight bc they read dark matter yesterday??? hahaha... :)

[leadendeath]

Sometimes i think about my very large bottle of mixed perler beads and wonder if I could substitute them as pony beads for kandi… I don’t often use them but do not want to buy lots of pony beads , I am already in the swamp of art supplice as it is 0_0

[rewritingcanon]

U mentioned early 2010s ... how old were u back then? 5 or 6...?

ok so basically when i was growing up my mum banned me and my siblings from watching a lot of kids shows. i have never watched spongebob or adventure time or victorious or icarly or tawog or even DORA because my mum didnt approve of it so… i ended up watching Other Stuff that was from the 2010s. the popular shit i could get my hands on. this was around 2012 when my mum finally bought my brother an ipad and i shit you not i learned how to watch things my parents had on their plex account (which obviously didnt include kids stuff). so YES actually i started REALLY (concerningly) young

tbf though my brain was underdeveloped and most of watching merlin and sherlock holmes and supernatural slipped right by me but i do remember thinking merlin and arthur should have kissed and being mad when they never did.

merthur introduced me to gay people and it wasnt even its intention.

[chrismcshell]

made myself some eggs for lunch but had to do so with tears streaming down my face because i looked out the window while waiting for the pan to heat up and i saw that it was snowing and i remembered how winter was my favourite season when i was a little kid because i loved playing in the snow. so that's where i'm at right now. if anyone was wondering