#anon this is so sweet thank you again

[typingatlightspeed]

hi! i've been reading through a lot of your not-smut content lately (it's all really super good, all your fics entrance me) and i just wanted to say i really like how you write soldier. i really enjoyed reading "all saints' day" and "sarcasm", and i hope you have a nice day!! :)

Thank you so much, Anon! Soldier's really hard for me to write, because I tend to try and write the mercs a little bit more like real people than canon, and Soldier is just SO gonzo in canon that he's hard to get a handle on in my style. And he deserves a lot of consideration because he's such a great, fun character, that I always worry about doing him justice. <3 So I REALLY appreciate your kind words; they mean a lot to me. And I'm glad you enjoy my work so much! :D

[somegrumpynerd]

Aww 🥺💘 dadmare taking care of his sons overgrown hamsters is just the most adorable thing ever! And your Art is so very lovely too!! 🥰 thank you for such cuteness. 💕

Ahskbdkbgkjdbkj thank you!!! <3

I'm pretty sure this is in reference to this (sorry it took so long to answer) and here's another doodle since you're so sweet and kind

Doesn't know how to be affectionate with a parental figure VS doesn't know how to be affectionate at all FIGHT

[basketobread]

You’re genuinely so funny. You should seriously make some kind of comic

omg this is such a late response but i hope you know that i made this EXACT face when reading this. thank you SO much!!! i really would love to make a comic soon featuring my oc's or something... maybe i'll get around to planning one eventually. but comics aside, your words mean SOOO much. THANK YOU AGAIN!!!! 😭😭😭❤❤❤❤

[javierduffy]

Just got struck with a thought for a mildly canon au: what if after saving Kieran from the O'Driscolls in ch4 Javier sleeps with his head on Kieran's chest so the first thing he hears when he wakes up is his heartbeat, reassuring him that Kieran is alive and they got to him in time

oooyuggg oooohhh …. oouuhhh … this is so sweet … oouuhh javi absolutely would be petrified to lose kieran after already having nearly done so once … not like they don’t both know that this lifestyle means that they could lose each other at any given moment, but to be directly confronted by the rush of wind on your face from a right hook from grief that just barely missed your skin … javier feels a little more emboldened in his endeavors regarding protecting and generally indulging in kieran and his wellbeing.

he’d be like “dutch, i’ll protect him. i’ll watch him. i have time, the others are working on something big, they don’t need me. let me take care of him. (not gay. no homo.)” and since kieran sleeps on the floor of shady belle, they both move in there to try and stave infection off and every morning the girls have to shuffle around them while they’re intertwined together on the floor. it’s like javier is a coat that kieran can’t shirk— he keeps the fever down. and javi always wakes up first. it’s like he’s got a sixth sense for when kieran is about to wake up, and he always wakes up first, even by mere moments. which is funny because up until then, kieran would be up before the sunrise and that be about the time that javier was laying down to sleep. love affects you down to your biology 💔 anyway yes and javi always always always lays there, opens his eyes, sees kieran’s resting face, will sometimes raise a hand to smooth a worried crease off of kieran’s dreaming face, and then will indulge himself in laying back down and listening to kieran’s strong heartbeat. for however long it takes for kieran to wake up, or at least indicate to javier that he’s awake. sometimes he knows javi is awake and will sit very still for a while, just because he wants to stay like that just a little longer. (sometimes, especially later into these endeavors, javier can tell by the way kieran’s breathing changes. but he will never let kieran know that.) i think there have even been times where kieran would sleep too deep and his heartbeat would get softer and javier would suddenly hear gunfire and smell blood and hear the lap of the water against the wood of a boat like he’s losing it all all over again and he’d end up shaking kieran awake just to make sure his eyelids weren’t meant to home coins just yet. kieran knows he would do the same and also be 10x worse so he doesn’t really mind but this isn’t to say that sometimes he’s not like “javier. my sweet lover. my desert sun. i am going to be okay. please let me rest. go rob somebody or something before dutch kicks us both out for being useless.” just so he can get some peace LOL ouugghh they’re so sweet i got off topic but yes this idea is SO good and i agree so bad and also i think that they were already obsessively tactile prior, just behind closed doors, so now, it’s just … embarrassing how touchy javi is. not that the rest of the gang doesn’t understand, like they haven’t clung to a body and basked in it’s warmth because they knew it could very well be cold tomorrow, but … man. he’s very. brazen with it. LOL ohh i lov them ok ill be quiet but thank u so much for sharing that with me i adore the idea. i would love to expand sometime on javier’s thoughts and fears in an au where kieran lives … and kieran’s thoughts and feelings as well ….. as well as draw them all cuddled up with javi listening to the steady tempo of kieran’s heartbeat and how it sounds like a song that he only wishes he could play on guitar because it sounds like the greatest love song ever written uughhh ok ok ok thank u i have to leave or i’ll cry

[astrobei]

DID I JUST READ THAT YOU'RE GOING TO WRITE A CAITVI FIC omg one of my favorite byler writers (i've been out of ST fandom for like over a year now but i still reread some of my favorite fics occasionally) finally getting into Arcane and writing caitvi is the best news for me. I love my girls so much and the world always needs more beautiful caitvi stories from talented writers. Sorry i just got excited lmao

tentative yes! i’m wary of talking about my wips or ideas too much as of late since i’ve Just dug myself out of a creative rut and telling people my ideas is generally the best way to ensure i never actually write them lol. but i’m really enjoying the challenge of new characters and dynamics and i love the little concept i’ve come up with so i’m really hoping to see this through! here’s a little teaser, i give you all permission to clobber me over the head if this one ends up in the wip graveyard 🫡

[grumpyghostdoodles]

thank you for your comics and your cool comics!! yyaayayaya and the hot starlo

[thevioletcaptain]

I know the ask is about ships but could you make a non ship one with Dean and Carlos from the Winchesters? I can't think of an exact thing for Dean to say, but the first sentence can be what Dean would say for their first meeting. Thank you if you can (*^‿^*)

"I like your hair," Dean says, staring up from where he's clinging to the bottom of Mary's winter coat, and Carlos grins wide when he adds, with all the breathless gravity of a four year old eager to impress their opinions upon a new friend; "It's swooshy and it's pretty like Mommy's hair, and your-- your beads are pretty and shiny and shiny is my favorite color."

"Swooshy and pretty and shiny is exactly what I was going for, so thank you, little buddy."

Even with almost six years between now and the last time he'd seen Mary, Carlos is relieved to find that they still have a good sense of one-another -- can still communicate silently, swiftly, like they used to when it was life or death. He meets her eye, and her face softens, and understanding passes between them before he slides one of his lucky beaded bracelets -- the bloodstone one -- free.

Dean's eyes light up when he takes it.

When he smiles, he looks just like his mother.

[for this askbox game if anyone else wants to send me a prompt]

[ask-team-donum]

this might be a lil weird but I wanted to say I really appreciate ur aroace characters!! it feels kinda rare to see that at all let alone in a PMD setting and it sparks joy for me :) ty!! and ofc I love Phoebe & Scout as characters and will be following their story as long as it takes

ANON. LOOKING AT YE LIKE THIS FHSBXB <3333333333

Not weird at all!!!! You made my day!!!! Imight cry this made me so so happyy fjsgsbfhfh EEHEHE <333

I AM. SO SO HAPPY THAT THEY SPARK JOY FOR YE THAT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME YE'RE SO SWEET AA 💙💙💙💙💙

Thank you so much for these kind words <333333

[pynkhues]

Hi sophie! I hate to be the person who brings bad vibes your way, but I keep seeing ppl twisting your arguments in the worst way possible and it’s honestly bumming me out. The latest vaguepost claims that saying Louis is traditionally masculine or a patriarch is antiblack (this is the post btw in case your curious: https://www.tumblr.com/nashvillethotchicken/770055675307065344/a-lot-of-people-in-the-iwtv-fandom-regurgitate?source=share). It made me wonder whether this pushback against Louis’ masculinity has something to do with a narrow concept of gender roles in general. Because there always seems to be this idea that being masculine equals being a hyperviolent abuser, while any gentle or submissive trait immediately gets interpreted as “feminine” (and overall I see a very strong correlation between femininity and victimhood -especially in the context of domestic abuse -which is understandable but not necessarily helpful when talking abt a gay couple). I agree a lot with your interpretation of Louis as a Byronic hero and the points you’ve made about his and Lestat’s gender presentation, so it sort of surprises me to see so many people believe that recognizing Louis’ masculinity somehow negates his sensibility and his capacity for tenderness (not to mention the assumption that we are trying to defend Lestat and make him into a victim, which is a wild leap and a very bad faith reading of the whole argument imo)

Hey, anon, and that's okay. I can appreciate feeling bummed about my words being twisted into a strawman argument - I do sometimes too - but at the end of the day, that's out of my control and I think says a lot more about the people who'd do it than it does about me.

It's actually kind of interesting to me, because I think with a lot of those sorts of posts, the person actually kind of knows they're strawmanning, because they'd address me directly if they actually thought any of what they wrote in that post was what I was saying, and they almost never do. They make these sorts of posts loudly and publicly to turn the argument into one that stokes outrage and becomes something they can adopt a moral highground to and win, and I think in a lot of ways, it becomes an exercise in control. If they can put words in my mouth and not actually engage with me, they can control the environment of the debate, and therefore they can attempt to control the discourse in the fandom i.e. dictate the way Louis is perceived and received as a character by others. They want it to look like they're arguing my points, but they're not.

They're arguing with the points they want me to be making, because if my points are that Louis' a mindless, hypermasculine 'brute' and a 'sexual deviant', they know they're right and they know how to argue against that, but if my argument is what it is - that Louis is pretty traditionally masculine, and in fact that he has almost all of the Byronic masculine traits which includes sensitivity, warmth, depression, egotism, a vengeful streak, and a complex relationship with religion, sexuality, and the self - it becomes a conversation that requires a more nuanced understanding of what masculinity is and has been throughout history and literature, which doesn't work with the TERFy talking points that are, frankly, endemic in fandom spaces broadly right now.

Which yeah, that goes to your second point about gender roles, because I think that you've hit the nail on the head. A lot of people in this fandom seem to view the concept of masculinity as inherently violent or abusive and femininity as - to borrow a phrase I loathe from TikTok, haha - demure and mindful - which is, again, literally TERF rhetoric. This desire to reinforce the gender binary and feel like you're not simply because you're applying reductive and stereotypical female characteristics to a male character is just sort of baffling to me, on so many levels.

And it appears in a lot of their arguments, like, gosh, even the post I was linked to yesterday about Eartha Kitt, David Bowie and Grace Jones being influences for Louis as indicative of his 'feminine divine', which to me - honestly - reads as a pretty homophobic and misogynistic take. Cisgender men can be (and are!) influenced personally, creatively and professionally by women, and the suggestion that to be so negates masculinity and is indicative of femininity feels like a pretty dangerous rhetoric to me.

The funny thing is, I don't actually have an issue with people liking femme!Louis at all. It's not how I see him, no, but I respect the fact that how we interpret characters is subjective, and people bring their own history and interests and yes, kinks to a show, and I actually think that's really cool! That's part of what makes engaging with stories and fandom fun! What I find exhausting is the recurring accusation that anyone who doesn't see Louis as a battered housewife entering his liberated woman era is a racist.

[zeldalizzy]

your art is so cool! I love how you make it look so much like the source material with your own style and vibe woven in. Thanks for making awesome clean content for people like me to enjoy!!!

and good luck on your finals!

AHHH THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU 💕

anon, oh my goodness 🥹 This is so so so sweet, as soon as I saw your message it made me smile and I teared up a little! This is so encouraging to me -- I am SO thankful that you love my art and that you enjoy it!

I have a lot of younger siblings/younger cousins, so making clean, wholesome art is really important to me! I'm so glad you noticed this and that is so kind of you to say 🩵

Thank you so much! I am almost done with my exams, and then I get to go home! 🥳

[chaosduckies]

What was Liam's first experience with a sizeshifter?

Ooo I wouldn’t like to give too much away (for angst reasons later one ehehe-)

Liam did not have a good first experience at all. (very bad childhood) His dad and mom are shifters (she can shrink but never does, and his dad can grow) and his dad used his abilities to abuse Liam and his mom a lot. He basically became an alcoholic :/

Shifters in this world can’t pass their abilities to their children, it just kind of happens at almost any age, which is why Liam isn’t a shifter like his parents and why he didn’t just run away when he could Again, I don’t really want to say too much for plot reasons (I am still writing it!) but Liam will eventually talk about it.

Thank you for the ask anon! :D

[stabbyfoxandrew]

I read all your WIPs, I love Guardian Angel Andreil

Neil managed to touch Andrew's hoodie, so he doesn't pierce people/objects, interesting 🤔

It's not Wednesday but for the next one may I request Vampire Andrew?

Ps. Thank you for deciding to participate in WIPW and for sharing your projects. I also just wanted to point out that this post

https://www.tumblr.com/stabbyfoxandrew/725813187248783360/wip-wednesday is missing the Andreil tag, (for ease of finding it on Tumblr )

Thank you 🙏

Have a great day 🙂🤍

WIP Wednesday (8/23) | Vampire Andrew AU

‘Minyard is looking at me again.’  ‘He sure stares a lot. What’s his problem?’ ‘Does he ever fucking blink?’

Oh shit. Andrew’s spine snaps straight and he blinks a couple times in rapid succession before looking away. He’d been staring into space again. He does that a lot these days. It’s just not easy, being what he is. Andrew breathes in deeply, for good measure, and rises from his seat. He glares at the girl as he makes his way across the dining hall to the trash cans and dumps his nearly full tray of food.

‘What the fuck? What the fuck? Is he going to kill me or something?’

Andrew scoffs and rolls his eyes and turns on his heel to stalk towards the nearest exit sign. He pulls up his hood and pushes the door open, stepping through and immediately wincing at the brightness he’s met with. He squints and starts towards Fox Tower, the athlete’s dorm. 

In case you’ve somehow missed it, Andrew Minyard is a vampire. 

He’s got all the basic superpowers that come with such a diagnosis: super strength, speed, hearing, a heightened sense of smell… You name it, he’s got it. And Andrew’s got an extra little perk— or curse, depending on how you look at it. He can read minds. 

He doesn’t do it on purpose. It just… happens. And it’s constant. Other peoples’ thoughts float into his head 24/7 and it drives him insane. It’s hard to pay attention to anything at all with so much going on. Game nights are horrible. Thousands of people packed into the stands, all mentally complaining about how the game is going or the sticky seats or the kid sitting next to them. But he’s not sure how to turn it off.

He really wishes he could.

next->

[redo-rewind-if]

Yaaay I got so excited about the Chapter 3 release that I stopped everything I was doing to read ˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶ (Sorry for any mistakes, english is not my language)

Ahhh, thank you so much!! It makes me really happy to hear that. I hope you've enjoyed it!

And don't worry, your English is great, no mistakes at all! (*^▽^*)👍

[2aceofspades]

*squints at you from the shadows*

Ace you better be taking care of yourself and getting proper rest! This is a We-Support-Ace-Taking-Rest-Breaks-And-Will-Not-Hesitate-To-Enforce-It household!!!!

Nah but seriously, silliness aside, I do hope you're taking care of yourself; we always love you see you happy and healthy most of all ~-- --- .-. ... . / .- -. --- -.

Nooooo no no MOrse AnOn!!?!??!

W-waaahhh-

Where...morse anon, besides the goodness of your heart...where is this coming from gaaahh

I'm okay I swear! 😵‍💫 Oh golly gee I dunno how to sound or look convincing- wait that sounds so bad.

Gahee-

Okay...I'm okay, seriously. Thank you for your concern for me, that's very sweet 🥺 Today is just one of those days I dunno. It started off weird and it's still weird and I dunno how to make it not weird.

I'm just very confused and a bit paranoid it's making me look a bit unhinged I dunno anymore yikes...

[macawritesupdates]

Ahh I'm glad you liked the mini fic because immediately after finishing it I had an idea for another lol.

…

Sukuna watched Daiki digging about in the garden. The little leech could cover himself from head to toe in dirt in under a minute on a good day and it had rained the night before. Sukuna suspected that his clothes were completely unsalvageable at this point but he'd leave them for the brat to try and clean anyway as punishment for being sent away on an overnight mission and leaving him to babysit their spawn. The six eyes had offered of course but there was no way Sukuna would let him, who knew if whatever was wrong with that man was contagious after all. The last thing he needed was for his son to pick up some sort of aura of divorce off that man. Surprisingly keeping an eye on the spawn wasn't entirely awful. He was good entertainment at least even if he always wanted to be underfoot following Sukuna from room to room and smiling up at him no matter what he was doing. That had gotten annoying when he was trying to work in the garden but Daiki also loved to try and imitate whatever his father was doing so Sukuna had given him a very small corner of the garden to take care of himself. A very small corner. In the very back where no one would see it. So long as Sukuna looked over every five minutes so Daiki could proudly show off his progress he could keep the mini brat out of trouble for hours. Now completely unrecognizable his mud covered spawn waddled up to him looking like a swamp beast. He grinned with big sharp white teeth somehow managing to channel his dopey father and look cute.

“I got all the weeds! It's seed time!” Crowed Daiki.

“Let's go now” the little runt said, grabbing Sukuna's hand in his muddy paw.

Sukuna had promised that once his section of the garden was weeded he'd take the boy out to pick out his own seeds. More out of a desire to keep his fancy seeds for the nicer parts of the garden than anything else. Now the king found himself dragged along by his cheerfully humming son. Daiki tugged his father up to his favorite red wagon. It had built in seats on either end and was probably meant for parents to pull their children around in but Daiki had inherited Yuuji's strength of body and mind… that is to say the boy was strong and enthusiastic enough to pull others around and never once thought to considered any other way of doing things. Sukuna took his usual seat facing forward as his spawn rushed forth. The bottom of the wagon was filled with all the little random things that caught Daiki’s attention when he went out to wander the neighborhood. Mostly random shiny rocks or cool sticks he'd found an abandoned wasps nest and several bird feathers too. Sukuna put his feet up on the other seat to keep them off his spawn’s growing hoard, missing the brat for just a moment as he did. Yuuji’s lap made a much more comfortable footrest than the other seat after all. Sukuna briefly considered spraying Daiki down with the hose to get some of the mud off but the boy was already picking up speed in his race to the store and it'd be a hassle to turn back now. Sukuna reached down and pulled the emergency umbrella out from under the seat instead and held it up to shield himself from the mud flying off his running spawn. The king settled in for the bumpy journey.

…

At the store Daiki stood transfixed before the seed display his tiny mind overwhelmed by all the options. Sukuna watched as he wiggled from side to side all four of his eyes darting about. A store clerk rushed over face all red clearly gearing up to scream at the muddy child for making a mess in the store only to freeze in place once he caught sight of Sukuna's lazy grin. Some ancient self preservation instinct must have awakened in the man because he made a sharp turn and Daiki was left to keep browsing in peace. Finally making up his little mind the mini brat started to throw random seeds into his wagon. Chest all puffed out with pride he turned and marched right out of the store. Sukuna snickered at the look on the workers face. Pulling out his phone to get a selfie with him in the background. His son's first robbery ought to be commemorated after all. He sent the picture to the brat. Hopeful Yuuji would see it and rush home to prevent their spawn from continuing his life of crime.

…

Sukuna hadn't expected much would come of Daiki’s section of the garden. The little monster had scattered seeds wildly and without a thought all over the place and then drowned them all in hose water, at least the water helped clean him a bit in the process. He was surprised to see vines growing up tall and flowers blooming. There was no order at all to it but the plants didn't care growing tangled around each other. Daiki made himself a little fort in the center by weaving some of the tallest plants together and every time Sukuna walked past he'd poke his little head out and grin up at him. It was all fun and games until the zucchini plants started to produce. One or two or even ten would have been fine but every time Sukuna went out he'd find another damn zucchini That he'd missed before. A family can only eat zucchini for so many meals in a row before they go insane. At this rate they'd be eating zucchini bread for breakfast, fried zucchini for lunch, and zucchini casserole for dinner every day for the next year and they'd still have more. Even Yuuji wasn't creative enough in the kitchen to manage that. Luckily for the sake of his family Sukuna was willing to make sacrifices, he was willing to allow all the brats friends over for dinner for just one night. Just this once and they had better be grateful.

…

And then while everyone else was eating together Sukuna broke into everyone's cars and filled them all with produce from his son's garden. And from then on Daiki was never ever allowed to grow vegetables again, only pretty flowers and maybe maybe the occasional herb.

…

I just wanted some bonding between Sukuna and Daiki. Sukuna is that meme of dad's with the pet they said they didn't want. Daiki is a good boy, but he doesn't quite understand how stores work yet he didn't mean to steal. Idk how old he is in this one old enough to talk and run around, but probably not in school yet. I hope you like it!

I'M BEING SPOILED AHHH! Also posting during the day so more people can see!

These little stories are such a delight to read and so cute too! Sukuna being a grumpy parent is so spot on for the story (until a few chapters in hehe.... that spoilers!)

And Daiki certainly does take after Yuuji! Beat me to the punch of writing the little leech! In the chapter I'm working on, he is four years old, so this def could be him at two or three, causing trouble and Sukuna not stopping his criminal career!

Also I FEEL that Zucchini part in my soul as someone who has six squashes on my counter...

[ursachaotic]

Ok this might be a little weird and I want to tell this to you anonymously because I don't want to make you feel pressured into answering ^^' (let it be known I am a mutual of yours & I know we don't talk but I think you're really cool <:) Your genuine love for Gravity Falls and you excitement about The Book of Bill is kind of. Helping me rekindle old love for the franchise. I stopped interacting with it more or less involuntarily (bad experience with bad people) and felt bad that I can't get into it but honestly your interest did help me rediscover it, or at least start to do so. Like I've picked up my old Journal 3 a couple times this week, I thought about re-watching the show, I bookmarked the cheapest "to be released" listings for TBOB in the online shops in my country, I have the thisisnotawebsitedotcom bookmarked too. I've been picking up my hand-made-from-a-towel Bill plush and just looking at him. Thinking about trying to find his hat and make him a new bow because I took them off when it was just too awful to perceive.

I hope this isn't weird. I genuinely don't mean to be weird or trigger your anxiety or anything, I mean it. Your love for this show and everything around it is helping me a bit to rediscover my own, which is great, because as someone with interest in folklore, the paranormal and cryptids, GF was an amazing thing to discover. I myself made a grown up version of Dipper, who's a full-on cryptid hunter and wrote a lot of stories about him, later turning that concept into my own thing because it was too painful to keep but I loved all of the creatures I made and the lore and stuff. So I just took my ideas and moved it into my own thing, which is currently my most developed universe with my most beloved ocs.

This is lengthy. Sorry. Again, I genuinely don't want to creep you out, just, I'm glad I found you and your art and your comic and that you're so excited about your interests. Please know that you are never bad or annoying for loving what you love, please continue being so passionate about things, because it's really cool. You're cool. I hope you know that ^^ and, well, if not, I'm telling you. You're cool and your work is amazing.

(If you would prefer me to pm you feel free to post about it here or your personal? blog, whichever you're cool with, I'll probably see it and can just pm you with like "haha yeah I'm the long rekindled-interest anon" or you can answer this or just read & delete, I really don't mind if you don't want to answer ^^. Just, wanted to say this. Again I hope this isn't weird ;w; I swear I'm just a little adhd guy who used to love GF a lot, and possibly might be okay enough to start interacting with it on his own. And your love for the franchise helped.)

Hi this made me tear up (iN A GOOD WAY I PROMISE AHSDOFISADH I CRY WHEN I'M HAPPY LOL), this is seriously so, so sweet. Thank you so much for sending me this!! 🥹 I'm really glad that all of my silly Gravity Falls stuff has helped you get back into the show, and I hope you enjoy it and enjoy the Book of Bill if you get it!

Also, this seriously means a lot to me, especially because I'm actually really self-conscious about my interests and passions haha. I'm terrified of being seen as annoying, and there's been a lot of times recently where I've shut down out of the fear of being annoying about my interests. But I'm starting to not give a shit about whether or not people find me annoying online?? I want to be super vocal about something I adore so damn much cause it makes me happy! I've also been burnt out on drawing for a WHILE, but reading this book has given me so much inspiration, and drawing feels really fun and exciting again for the first time in a while! I struggle with depression a lot too, but my love for Bill and excitement about what's to come for the series has helped me feel really happy and kept me going for the first time in a bit. So, while I'm still scared of being perceived as annoying, I'm really happy right now and I want to keep doing stuff that makes me happy, even if that's just drawing Bill antagonizing me / my sona lmao. Seriously, thank you so much for sending me this! It's incredibly sweet and I'm really grateful that you did ;w;

Also you can absolutely reach out over DMs!! I would love to talk, but I hope you're having a wonderful day!! 🥹❤️