#and this is my final contribution for the week

[thesiltverses]

Fun Fact:

I am not a smart man. I listen to the first season of TSVs and went "Wow that was a really good little micro-podcast" (I was listening to a lot of intentionally short podcasts at the time) and moved on with my life. I thought it was tightly written, thoughtful, and a delightful listen.

It wasn't until I reccomended it to someone that I realized there was a season two, which was a total :0 moment for me. I was both delighted and terrified becuase "oh no, what if season 2 is bad". However, season 2 and it's ending bith was and remains one of the greatest media experiences of my life. I then *once again* decided the series was over and moved on with my life. Rinse and repeat.

In fact, the amount of actual *betrayal* I felt at season 3 was rediculous. How dare the creator sully my favorite podcast by continuing past the ending of it! I was angry enough it took me weeks to actually listen to season 3...

Surprisingly? Season 3? Fantastic! Genuinely delightful. While season 2 remains my favorite season, and the finale of season 1 ny favorite finale, season 3 still contributes to the series as a whole to be entirely worthwhile and enhance my enjoyment of the entire story most completely.

I share this specifically to say this: You successfully wrote a story where every individual season was a satisfying experience that also contributed to one amazing whole.

Far and away my favorite fiction podcast, ever. And that is saying a lot, considering the sheer volume of podcasts I listen to.

I really, truly cherish hearing that - thank you so much for listening and warmest wishes to you!

[sunshin3babeart]

My wife and I finally finished ALL of Venture Bros and I have been cooking up this beauty the whole tiiimmme.

I had an Venture Bros OC back in like 2005 but remember NOTHING of them so here's Dr. Holly Hart. *waves hands*

She's about the same age as Rusty, a well-known roboticist, and is a HUGE bitch. xD Despite what media coverage would tell you.

Of COURSE she's paired with someone and whoever can guess who it is gets a free bust art of their fave Venture Bros character lmaooo

Intro writing under the Read More~

"Our top story tonight: World Renowned Roboticist Dr. Holly Hart sits down with us for an interview on her visit to the US! Hailing from the UK, Dr. Hart has contributed to humanitarian efforts the world over! We catch her tonight after spending the last couple years supplying disabled children with hi-tech prosthetics! What an absolute angel. Don't miss out at-"

"Ugh. What a load of crap." Rusty grumbled, promptly turning off the TV.

"Friend of yours?" His bodyguard asked from behind the couch.

"Hardly." The former boy adventurer replied, "We both went to State. She was a transfer student and we had a couple classes together." Rusty threw up some air quotes, "Absolute angel" my ass. She's the biggest bitch I've ever met."

Brock shrugged his shoulders, "Well, doesn't look like you'll be seeing much of her with the compound out here in the middle of nowhere."

- Two weeks later, at a convention -

"Oh my GOD, that is THE Dr. Hart!" Billy Quizboy gushed, jostling his drink, "The QUEEN of the modern robot. Do you think she'd like to look at my hand?"

Brock grimaced a little, "Sorry, Doc. Guess I uuhh... Spoke too soon."

"No no. This one's on me. Just my fucking luck." Rusty replied, drowning himself in his drink.

[musubiki]

balor 🥰

[cactus-juiceee]

epilogue

[stone-stars]

[ID: Four versions of the Two Books meme. On the left of each is the same large tome labeled "neverafter". On the right is a different version for each faction of the neverafter, labeled "neverafter if [faction] gets what they want". Destiny's Children have the same tome but cut up into small pieces. The Daughters of the Crown have empty space. The Fairies have a significantly smaller tome. The Stepmother has the book distorted into her silhouette.]

the finale to my neverafter memes: the factions of neverafter and their goals, explained by books

[queeny-v]

Day 5 of Ppkm Week 2024 - Winter

I had so much fun participating in this week! This is my last post for it so I hope y’all like it! 💛

Close ups!

I like to imagine they’re on a school trip to Big Bear Lake that’s in California, it’s the only place I know of over there that snows every year lmao.

[zingtastic]

Stick to your guns and challenge Maruki.

[petricorah]

since it's over my dash today, when i draw comics, this is my "divorced" zukka au: That they choose their duties over their personal lives. Sokka out of love and obligation. And Zuko out of love for his people...but also out of guilt and fear that he'll end up like his father. And they got together, briefly, wonderfully, before they had to part ways. It was the culmination of years of pining and worrying about their friendship, and for a brief moment, they think they can have a future before reality and their own choices ruins it for them, and Sokka leaves and Zuko stays. They didn't get the chance to be happy together and now it hurts too much to even be friends. Because all that's left between them is what could have been. And sometimes they'll have to do a mission together and things will click back into place like they were meant to be, just like boiling rock, and they'll be reminded of what a good team they make and how much trust they have in each other. And Zuko is reminded that he hasn't really smiled that way in years because Sokka's the only one who can make him that happy, and that realization comes with a bitter twist inside him because he knows it's fleeting, and it's not fair that he can only be happy with someone who lives across the world. And Sokka remembers what it feels like to have warmth and sure footing. What it felt like to be with the one person he could completely let go with and know he'd be caught if he fell. And how he missed hearing the sound of Zuko's laugher so much he has trouble enjoying his own jokes because it just feels a little bit empty without the person he wanted to spend his life with by his side to hear them.

And then, the mission ends, and they're having to say goodbye, again, and it hurts more and more each time until neither of them are able to face it at all.

[ladymidnight-goesforth]

Tamlin Week 2024, Day 4: (a belated) Happily Ever After

@tamlinweek

We stood atop the hill in silence, until the setting sun gilded the house and the hills and the world and Lucien called us to dinner. ~ A Court of Thorns and Roses, ch. 45

This was inspired by the meadow scene in Studio Ghibli's "Howl's Moving Castle", hence the Ghibli-esque illustration style I went for here.

Many pro-Tamlin fans prefer to think of ACOTAR as a standalone book, and I am no exception. So my contribution to the "Happily Ever After" theme is them walking off into the sunset at the end of book 1. I hope you like it.

I am the artist. Please do not repost without permission.

[foreverfearlessred]

istfg if I lose Logan on the grid and his replacement is C***** of all people I will do something that puts me on the international news like this could not be worse for me personally besties xo

[stalebagels]

nature is healing

[silkpages]

one month off uni LET'S GO!!

[sophitz]

sophitz is the most yuri het ship in kotlc. to me

[mycelium-bf]

can't wait for winter break i still have like a hundred chapters to catch up on for hxh but ik i need to catch up on black butler too i just don't know how much there is

[front-facing-pokemon]

[seiya-starsniper]

Dreamling Week Day 2 - Dragons

Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to finish out the fic I wanted for today's prompt, but I do have a snippet I'm happy to share! Hope y'all enjoy it while I kick my butt into gear for the rest of the week!

There are trespassers in his mountains. Dream can smell their foul odor from miles away. He shifts quickly into his dragon form, then lets out a bellowing roar, hoping that this warning will scare them off. When he smells them getting closer, he holds his fire in his mouth, manifesting smoke to release through his nostrils and waft through the trees. Still, the wretched things persist with making their way through the pathway up his mountain.  Dream would find himself impressed with their tenacity if he did not hold so much distaste for human life.  It has not always been this way. Once dragons and humans easily coexisted amongst one another. Dream himself had settled within a village teeming with creative humans who spent their time weaving songs and stories. They were often delighted by his ability to shift from dragon to human form, and the children in particular would beg and plead to ride on his back. It was a period when humanity had been at its best, he remembers, but it was not a time meant to last. As humans propagated themselves across the lands, like any other creature, they began to fight for territory rights. Soon the landscape was torn apart by war and famine, and many of Dream’s kind had been caught unwillingly in the fray, killed or captured by humans wishing to use them to serve their own violent needs.  Dream has not seen another one of his kind in over a millennia. He is unsure if he ever will again.