#also to everyone who's sent in requests

[wandering-words]

prompt 25 for avanine 🤭

(We talked before and you know I already got this one so thanks for sending in a backup request!)

This fulfills prompt 27 - humming/singing.

Set after 2x09 Sick Day.

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Janine talked to the camera crew more than most of the staff at Abbott Elementary did. 

Even Ava, the one who invited the camera crew to film the school in the first place, had a picture-perfect mask to present to the camera. She was a showman first and foremost, it was how she’d survived and gotten to where she was now, but Janine wasn’t used to projecting a personality to the camera. 

She could barely find people who saw her for her and didn’t tease her for it. Even Tariq, the man she dated for nearly twelve years, didn’t really know who she was. Janine was so used to giving and giving and giving to the people around her, her boyfriend, her mom, the staff, the school, and no one seemed to give back, just sucked her energy out of her like a clew of leeches without wondering how she was doing. 

Maybe it meant she projected too much of herself. Maybe people were too quick to dismiss her trauma, her cries for help, all of it. And maybe the camera crew weren’t really her friends, but at this point it was her only outlet to express herself, though a part of her knew logically that the camera crew were listening to her so that they could also extract knowledge that would better their Abbott Elementary documentary. 

The camera crew was meticulous, filming them from 7:30 when school started to when the kids were let out at 2:30. There were also other extraneous filming times when some of the staff members interacted outside of school, but generally the filming schedule was largely the same. Janine was impressed at how they were able to find the most dramatic moments of the school day and compile them into 25 minute episodes. 

Janine was one of the staff members that did talking heads the most, who shared her stories the most, who they painted as the protagonist despite Ava’s protests. 

Part of Ava’s TV persona was hating Janine, but Janine couldn’t help but feel like it was personal. 

The camera crew was suspiciously protective of their camera footage (the teachers saw the documentary as episodes were airing), but Janine was able to pull some strings to change that the day she got sick and couldn’t make it into school. 

She knew Ava liked sabotage—even if she didn’t, she performed it flawlessly—and Janine wanted to make sure that it didn’t affect her class’s learning.

When Janine returned to Abbott that Monday, she asked two of the crew members if she could see some of the footage of Ava being a substitute teacher, just to make sure that everything was running smoothly.  

Members of the camera crew shrugged, picking out pieces of footage they’d collected from the day and showing Janine the parts they planned to air. 

What Janine didn’t expect was the lump that rose in her throat when she heard Ava playing her coloring playlist for the kids, singing along softly to “Pick Up Your Feelings” by Jazmine Sullivan. Janine couldn’t help the shy smile that spread over her face when she heard Ava attempt the vocal run, not doing a half-bad job at it. 

It was a surprisingly wholesome moment. Watching Ava’s tough exterior go slightly softer for the kids made an unrecognizable feeling travel through Janine’s veins and she felt a smile tug at the corners of her lips. 

Ava was genuinely trying, and even though it was likely for the kids’ benefit rather than Janine’s, Janine couldn’t help but feel as though she’d seen a vulnerable moment from the taller woman, watching the showman mask crack just a bit so that the kids could be comfortable learning from her. 

Janine was a bit too good at forming unhealthy attachments to people. Barbara was the closest to a mother figure she’d ever had, Melissa was the hard-assed aunt she never had, Gregory was… a great friend, and now she was feeling some type of way about Ava. 

She just knew that her affection wouldn’t be reciprocated because Ava had made it pretty clear that she hated Janine’s guts. 

Janine came back her usual sunshiny self, and she was pleasantly surprised when Melissa and Barbara welcomed her back. Not quite with the most open of arms, but Melissa’s small smile and Barbara’s fond gaze were more than enough. 

The more surprising reaction was Ava’s: she walked into the lounge with her usual swagger, but she was quiet. As she poured her usual mountain of sugar into her otherwise black coffee, her eyes were glazed over, a victim to her own thoughts. 

What was even more surprising was that not only was Ava quiet to everyone in the staff room, but she usually had a few petty insults ready to snark out before she left, and she didn’t even look at Janine before she was swinging open the door and heading back to her office. 

Janine looked directly at the door, not realizing she was lost in her own mental world of wondering where Ava was, what she was feeling, why she was even wondering what Ava was feeling, when she heard Melissa’s smug voice break through her thoughts. 

“You’ve been staring at the door as if Ava’s coming back.” 

Janine felt her face flush and she looked down demurely, but not before she heard an “mmm” from deep in Barbara’s throat, agreeing with the redhead. It was then that Janine tentatively moved from her chair, opening the door and making her way to Ava’s office, feeling her throat constrict and her entire body growing more and more tense with each step. 

She also felt the faint bass and heard the soulful voice of Jazmine Sullivan, though muted, coming from inside Ava’s office. Janine noticed Ava humming along as she flipped through paperwork, and Janine felt some of the tension in her body melt when she noticed Ava being so… unconstricted. Free from her usual unaffected, snarky mask. 

It made Janine’s heart constrict with a new feeling, adrenaline pumping through her veins and making Janine feel a way that she’d only before felt when in the presence of Tariq or Gregory. 

But why Ava? 

“What the hell are you doing out here, Janine?” Ava said, opening the door to her office and looking at Janine with an unaffected expression, her mask effectively slipping back into place. 

“Uh…” Janine wracked her brain for an excuse, “I wanted to thank you again for watching my class. You didn’t have to do that.” 

Ava rolled her eyes. “Actually, I did. I’m not having the superintendent try to fire me again.” Her words were hard but her eyes were soft when she looked at Janine. She looked back at the documentary crew, the one she hired, before snapping at them to cut the cameras. 

To Janine’s surprise, they actually did turn off the cameras. Maybe it was because Ava was ultimately paying them to do this and she would likely try to cut their wages if they filmed her without her consent, but either way, Janine watched the tension seep out of Ava’s shoulders. 

“Thanks, Janine.” 

Her eyes were still soft when they looked at Janine, and Janine felt as though her entire body had been set on fire. 

Janine was so tempted to throw her arms around the taller woman, hear her heartbeat thumping in her chest, feel the comforting weight of Ava’s head resting on top of hers, feel safe, but before she could destroy any sense of self preservation she had, Ava was gone.

[sometimes-rendog]

I voted hehe. Would you draw Rendog and Iskall? It’s fine if you don’t want to!

day 72, they are such brothers to me... annoying, annoying brothers

[winterrens]

send help

[nineteen-rats]

umum,, hi!! if you want an art request,, perhaps more modern au? maybe with the original kids (jenny, alyss, george, horace, will) or maybe halt, will and gilan? no pressure ofc

your art is very pretty btw!!! actually gorgeous!!!

they’re hanging out at the park after school :))

[plulp]

hey guys. remy design

[spoonhead]

i definitely haven’t been mentioning this for like all my recent art posts but uhhhh check out my artfight and reblog with yours :) mutuals especially i want a good excuse to draw your characters 👍

[mischefous]

👆this is me when i see ur art

HJKAKFKEKKAKEHFJK this lowkey jumpscared me XD, just me scrolling through my asks and BOO! SKELETON WITH BULGING EYES

on the other hand, this is me seeing all the lovely kind words about my art, it brings happy tears to my eyes. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! I LOVE YOU ⋆⭒˚.⋆💙

[deerhuntingg]

hiii im bored feel free to send me some asks!! it can be aawil related or just anything ^.^

[seagull-scribbles]

Some requests of the Mutant variety⚠️

Also, with this post we have hit a milestone :)

[altcvnningham]

Honestly I love to see those AdlerBell WIPS(even a quick summery on what’s it about)

i try not to divulge too much ab my wips bc i seem to have this thing where the second i talk ab them too much i lose motivation to write them,,,, but i LOVE oversharing and i’m in too deep to stop writing these anyway so

a few i’m working on that i’m sure to post at some point soon:

case x reader dubcon smut post emergence, just needs editing !!

adlerbell at the rook from marshall’s pov (more of a slice of life thing, vaguely fluffy, bell is kinda foggy/sick/mad wife coded??)

cw era park x f!bell smut that revolves around park’s jealousy of adler and his claim over bell (i REALLY love this one)

adlerbell (smut?) post solovetsky where he puts bell in one of his ex wife’s nightgowns bc i’m a sicko editing this one is too scary so i’ve been putting it off for ages sksjjsjs

woods x reader request that i love, sweet and fluffy!!

royalty au request that i need to finish

other adlerbell drabbles hanging out in my notes bc i have adlerbell brainworms

ideas that i have on the backburner but haven’t started:

post solovetsky adlerbell angst drabble inspired by “once more to see you” by mitski

adlerbell western/bounty hunter au inspired by “the killing moon” by echo and the bunnymen???? maybe

adlerbell priest x nun confessional separation fever dream drabble

and a slightly larger adlerbell at the rook pre-bo6, during adler’s year off the grid. but honestly it’s gonna be more of a self indulgent cozy fic, vague plot, bc i don’t wanna put pressure on myself to make it “perfect” or “accurate” pertaining to other people’s expectations. idk i’m just here to write for fun bc i haven’t written in over a year or published online in many !!!

[gaydexvocaloid]

hopping on the barbie template train !! here’s a wip

[gothsuguru]

I’M FEELING INSPIRED!!!!!!

[tardis--dreams]

I actually realized i hate work. Won't be putting any effort into this anymore ♡

[aluminumoxideaddict]

Some previews of art I’ve been working on during the last nine months or so, just to break my unintended hiatus and to show I’m still alive. 

I’m hoping to revamp this blog a bit and update a bunch of my old art during May and June... if life doesn’t get in the way, that is. 

[rinhaler]

Good morning beautiful people!!!

[teleostuber]

JUST SAW YOU DID MY REQUEST OHMIGODZ THANK YOU ASHAHZHHABXHS YOUR ART IS SO AMAZONG AND SILLY AND IT REMINDS ME OF MR SKETCH SMELLY MARKERZ AHAHSHGAHSGA I LUV UR ART AND YOURE AND AMAZONG CREATOR THANK YOUZZZ

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!!!! I’m so glad u like it >:D thats so sweet haha I love smelly markers