#WinterSongs

[clickyourradio]

[jessicarivermusic]

Behind the scenes of The Beat Of The Winter Drums by Jessica River! 🎼

Full Video: https://youtu.be/hA3udBTCZVE

[alt-texts]

these flowers are frozen and shine with crystal facets

this grass is brittle, encased in ice

the fish, underwater, stuck in place

and I think it’s unnerving 

an eerie iridescent shine on it all 

and I think it’s beautiful 

though creatures cannot grow here

though nothing may change, I don’t mind

yet though I want it to stay enchanted like this

without new life and death it will grow stale

so soon comes a summer’s breeze

and the scenery, it wilts,

no longer supported by it’s arctic prison 

flowers lose the semblance of preservation 

and the grounds lie barren

‘til they bloom again

and the flowers do bloom again 

but it is different than before

and when I try to compare them

I do not know which I would prefer

and so...

most may wish their lives be summer always

but me I like the winter

with its sedentary shine

I love it’s subtle glimmers

I love those frostbite days

for if it was always winter

I know you could stay mine

and though this frost may turn to dew

Ill wait through every season

until once more it’s me and you

[pocket-vvardvark]

Wip wednesday

Sorry I'm being slow guys </3 anyways I was inspired by @sanza-17 with the fire hair for Irene and so Alethia is angy

Ty for the tag: @skyrim-forever @sanza-17 @lillxart @theoneandonlysemla

I'd like to tag: @scholarlyhermit @fangsandsoftgrass @aviel-the-trans-bucket @aanthirin @caliblorn @sulphuricgrin @yansurnummu @thequeenofthewinter @umbracirrus @changelingsandothernonsense @nyarevar @mavariel @hircines-hunter @skyrim-crossing @red-mountain-flower @varlaisvea @lathez @firefly-factory @wrenbirdie love you all <3 no pressure, I hope everyone is having a good day/week mwah :)

P.S. Her tattoo means unbreakable hehe <33

[sanza-17]

Ik it’s already late but I wanted to post this drawing I did as a bday gift for @pocket-vvardvark of her Beautiful vestige Alethia <33

LOVE YOU POOKIE ❤️❤️❤️

[noraonfilm]

All books should have a dark magical forest.

[anddreadful]

the thing that works about rescuing Toby in Labyrinth as sarah's motivation that doesn't work for the one million YA fantasies that write "rescue their sibling" in the box labeled "progatonist's motivation" is that how much sarah loves toby isn't really the point. Caring for Toby is representative of Sarah's maturity by way of responsibility to other people, the thing that's directly at odds with her fantasy escapism. Her arc is learning how to take accountability for both her creativity and her real relationships so she can have both in a healthy, adult way, and toby is an obvious symbol of this that serves as a framework for the entire journey.

so many fictional idiot siblings are out here endangering themselves haphazardly for no thematic reason at all except that it gets the protagonist up and into the mechanics of the plot. this can be improved upon! the ancient texts (muppet movie) did it well and so can you!

[crazy-grrrl-on-the-computer]

WIP Word Game

Rules: you will be given a word. then you share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that starts with each letter of your word!

Tagged by: I recently saw this in the Wings of Fire tag and decided to give it a go.

My word: cure

I'm just gonna jump around my WIPs until I find something I like. I'll write the letter first, then the title/fandom of the WIP the excerpt belongs to.

C - Mind What I Said, 2012 Avengers/Supernatural

Cold. The faintly incomprehensible sound of unfamiliar voices drifts through the haze, scratching unpleasantly at the corners of my mind. It’s cold. A chilling dampness seeps into the cracks of my existence and the stench of wet cardboard tinged with metal stings my nose. The surface beneath me hardens with each eon that passes, but my body is too heavy to consider moving and for a moment a comforting thought arises from somewhere deep within my subconscious. Ah. I’m dead, so no one will notice if I don’t get up. But that can’t be right. It’s not safe here. After a few tries, my eyes finally open and the room that steadily comes into view . . . is missing.

U - Strategy and A Sword, Prodigy Math Game

Usually she’d be saying not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but something about this felt too good to be true. It had to be. “Let’s hurry to the Academy and teach the Puppet Master a lesson!” Double ugh. The charm of the little fairy’s enthusiasm had since graduated to pestering every time she so much as thought about the Island Map. She heaved a sigh as her fingers curled around the Academy Amulet. “Put an old sock in it, Noot.” She had 46 of them now.

R - Stay Cool (It's Just A Kiss), Boueibu

Ryuu wished it could be that simple, that he could feel so secure and confident that everything would be okay, but the way it was so easy for even Yufuin-senpai and Kinugawa-senpai to pick petty fights with each other over nothing even if it was the influence of a monster was not reassuring. It had been that easy for Io to consider leaving him too and Io didn’t even have that excuse. But perhaps the worst realization of all was that the strength of their bond had been so great they’d been able to overcome the monster’s spell before the Love Shower… and yet Ryuu stood there feeling unchanged. Sure, he accepted and understood Io’s faults just as Io accepted and understood his, but it was hard not to wonder if this was a sign that maybe the breakdown of his own relationships was inevitable after all. “I’m gonna walk Komi home,” he decided. “I’ll meet up with you guys after.”

E - The Darkest Nights, Boueibu

Every evening for as long as they had been together, Goura always prepared dinner.

Your word (should you choose to accept it): heart

Tagging: @auniverseforgotten , @darth-salem-emperor-of-earth , @thatlittledandere , @koolkitty9 , @spacefinch , @fortune-maiden , @zenzenzence , @shadowmellow , @floweryuu , @nardaviel

As always, there’s no pressure to share and if I missed someone who wants to be included feel free to consider yourself also tagged~ <3

[fangsandsoftgrass]

Painting of @pocket-vvardvark's Alethia Wintersong 🥰🫶

[thyknife]

Let Your Heart Be Light

Fandom: Top Gun: Maverick

Pairing: Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw/Jake “Hangman” Seresin

Rated: T

Series: Part 2 of Bradley & Jake at Christmas (Part 1)

Summary:

A whole year. Jake can hardly believe it.

🎄🎁

Just a little thing 🤲

[bekah-reading]

118

4/5

This was a disaster- I shouldn’t have picked this up without the sequel! I need the sequel so bad.

This is a book that is inspired by Labyrinth. And it feels like it has Phantom of the Opera elements in it as well when you start reading it. Definitely also uses The Goblin Market.

All her life Liesl has heard tales of the Goblin King. They’ve enraptured her mind, her spirit, and inspired her musical compositions. She feels like her childhood fantasies and her musical dreams are slipping away as she is now 18 and helping to run her family’s inn. But now her own sister is taken by The Goblin King and she has to journey to the Underground to save her.

The writing was so good, and immersive. I absolutely could not put this down. I love it. I absolutely need the sequel, and I’m a little salty my order on Pango had to be cancelled cause the seller couldn’t find it. Almost feels like I can’t have it.

If you loved movies like Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, The Last Unicorn, Phantom of the Opera, or Legend- I definitely think you should pick this up.

[pocket-vvardvark]

WIP WEDNESDAY!!!

Ty for the tag @skyrim-forever @sulphuricgrin @theoneandonlysemla @yansurnummu @dirty-bosmer @sanza-17 <33

I'd like to tag: @fangsandsoftgrass @aviel-the-trans-bucket @red-mountain-flower @caliblorn @firefly-factory @skyrim-addict @skyrim-crossing @hircines-hunter @lucius-the-sinful @scholarlyhermit @yewphoric y'all <33 I have fish brain, sorry if I forgot anyone!! My heart didn't forget you, prommy <33

Anyways I have too many things :)) as always 😭

First up is dragon alethia (not at all influenced by sylus shhhhh 🥴🥴 *gets shot*)

Her tattoo means dragon this time!!

Next up is dollethia :)

Been thinking Abt this after I saw a doll body on Pinterest and was like hmmm alethia as a doll!! She's got a skyshard for a heart <3

Then I've got a major ass wip of aletheo but as a dragon loll. Pls now he's infecting my brain 💀 guess it doesn't matter what form alethia is in, she still infects my thoughts !!

Contemplated on not giving him undies ngl y'all

[sanza-17]

I luv the vestige from the hit game The Elder Scrolls Online🗣️‼️‼️

started some of the chibi drawings for my mutuals of their ocs (my lab rats) - Alethia @pocket-vvardvark - Cirwedh @fangsandsoftgrass - Elysia @scholarlyhermit <3

To my other mutuals yall are next 🫵😈

extra chibi 😼

[ryanshaneowen]

from my new album Wintersong out now on all platforms

[kazz-brekker]

if i had a nickel for every time i read a fantasy novel featuring a character loosely inspired by david bowie who was also raised by literal wolves, i would have two nickels. which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice